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Reorganization:

Crisis in the administrate

Racial Tension

A look at the university's

'.legacy of racial problems

Food Review The darker side of Daka

Plus fiction, poetry and art GIVE U/MASS PROGRESSIVE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

VOTE CHRIS ALBERTO Student Trustee

and the

Progressive Student Alliance

Committed to:

Allocating SAC Funds Fairly Revamping Proficiency Exam Stamping Out Racial Harassment Improving Day Care Increasing Bilingual Services Eliminating Sexual Harassment Fighting Tuition Hikes No Reorganization Without Student Representation CAS Octavio Ramirez Nelson Azocar Kristan Bagley Ginger Southern Ardi Batmanghelidj Sue Hinsvark David Cutler Ann Coppola David Lowney Susan Cantrill At large Seth Kolseth Chris Linden Alec Johnson CPS Kathy Davis Joannie Donahue Joyce Hamel George Heffernan Dennis Lordan Judy Bousquin = PAID POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Volume 1 Issue 3 ^Wavelength \\ February 25, 1980

Welcome to the third issue of Wavelength. We'd like to credit Greg Walker for the graphic on the outside back cover and Steven Eric Em- mond for the graphic on the inside Table of Contents back. Although we have expanded to forty-eight pages, we still lack the space to print all the quality material we receive. We've tried to cover a — variety of subjects which reflect the Administrative Shake-Up Janet Diamond . 2 diverse interests and concerns of the Jim Lonborg — Rick Bowers and Al McNeill 4 university community. We actively Blackwell Interview — Rick Bowers 8 encourage feedback, as well as Racial Tensions — Rick Bowers 8 suggestions for future issues. Cleveland Tenure Case — Stephen Cain 11 As Wavelength continues to grow, Greasy Spoon Award — D. Neal and R. Powers 12 we will need more resources to Student Guide to University Governance — produce the kind of quality magazine Monica Hileman 16 students deserve. Up until now, we Black Artists Union — Karen Kelly 20 have been operating on a shoestring Student Anxiety — Donna Neal 24 budget, supplementing much of the cost out of personal funds. If you en- joy Wavelength and would like to see Fiction more issues, write to the SAC, submit material, or join us on our staff. We are still located in Building Billy — Maris Nichols 14 010/6/066, x2636. Nightflight — Stephen G. Cain 18 Saved by the Glass — Drohan O'Neill 25 The Wavelength Staff

President Rick Bowers Poetry Vice President Janet Diamond Managing Editor Preoccupations — Maris Nichols 19 Donna Neal Untitled — Allison Hurley 19 Photo Editor Before the Fall - John G. Hall 19 Debbie Karacozian to G.E. -A.E.M 19 Editors Morning on Creation Day — deta galloway 26 Rick Bowers Paradox — Gary Evans .27 Janet Diamond Out The Other Door — Gary Evans 27 Literary Editors Jamaica — deta galloway , . 32 Al McNeill Progression — John G. Hall 33 Donna Neal Resisting Conclusions — Maris Nichols 33 Staff: Chris Alberto, Stephen Cain, twilight — A.E.M. 33 Brigid Coffey, Gary Evans, Jean- Genteel Psycho Ward — Janet Diamond 39 Claude Ferdinand, Donna Handy, Loving, I'm Giving — D. Scott Robinson 41 Monica Hileman, Linda Hurley, Rough Edges — Denise R. Maffett 45 Karen MacDonald, Joe McLellan, Lonq Nights and Winter — John G. Hall 45 Laura Newbold, Maris Nichols, Adjectival Mania — Chapter 066 47 Steven Petrie, Rebecca Powers, Oc- tavio Ramirez, Stephanie Romanos, Tony Rubino, Dan Sardo Letters to the Editors 46 Special Thanks: The English Campus Controversy — Chris Alberto vs, Steve Petrie 23 Department, The Point Press, The V J> Pub and the Media Center

Wavelength I ADMINISTRATIVE SHAKE-UP

Special Asst. to Chancellor

on Reorganization Tonn

Assembly Subcommittee on Reorganization Tonn Chancellor Corrigan Safwat Bronk -Executive _ Deputy Chancellor Broderick Vice 'Chancellor

Vice Chancellor Vice Chancellor of of Administration and Academic Affairs & Finance Provost (vacant position) Baxter

Dean of Admissions and Records Hartnagel

Registrar

Frank Casey Vice Chancellor ot Student Affairs Tubbs

Placement Counseling INFO Sheri Costello Robinson Thomas

Director of Financial Aid Brennen Musical Chairs at the Top Who's Left Standing

Wavelength 2 "

by Janet Diamond changes he made was to institute the Of- because the present structure does not fice of Deputy Chancellor, a position allow the chancellor enough time to work with external reorganization plans, The usually anonymous and invisible created from the vacant Vice Chancellor the legislature, and to attend to other off offices on the 3rd floor of the Ad- of Academic Affairs Office. He placed Services campus duties. ministration Building have been in a Academic Support Director Tubbs disagrees. "It's not the chan- state of chaos since the beginning of the James Broderick in that position. cellor's job to lobby; his is Spring Semester. The cause of the uproar Corrigan and Broderick taught together job to run the campus. That's why we have a is a skimpy document called the Special at Bryn Mawr University several years President's Report of the University Assembly Plan- ago. Office." of the concerns ning Committee. To understand the "I consider Jim Broderick the prime One about the executive vice chancellor position is that amazing impact of this small report one mover behind the reorganization plan. it will add another layer to already must follow a trail Uttered with clumsy He's been trying to get something like an decisions, petty power struggles, mangled this through for a long time," asserts top-heavy administration. "Any time there is another layer inserted into the egos, and profound decisions made in Tubbs. hasty disregard for those most intimately Broderick denies this charge, stating system, no one is too happy," comments affected. that he sees his role as temporary until a Baxter, he agrees, however, that "in context with external reorganization, the new plan makes sense." Along with complicating the lines of "Having worked with John Silber, I'd authority, the additional cost of such a

position is a source of concern. SAC say Corrigan isn't fit to walk on the same Chairperson Lucky Dodson comments,

"If he is going to spend money, spend it intellectual street as Silber. on the students, not on administrative staff." Tubbs estimates the new position, when secretarial staff and an assistant John Robinson .are added, would cost up to $100,000. At present, the executive vice chancellor position has a dim future. The

The controversy rages around two provost can be found. "I prefer the President's Office is not in favor of it, main issues: many feel the report was provost position to the deputy vice chan- and it seems unlikely that the Board of ill-advised and contains features which cellor position and I am not a candidate Trustees would approve of such a move. are in conflict with the special needs of for that job." The chancellor has stated, however, that UMass/Boston, and that Chancellor The chancellor agrees. The provost "the executive vice chancellor position is Corrigan's implementation methods are position has already been acted upon. A still theoretically possible." insulting to his professional staff. The search committee has been set up, and What is of more concern is the moving of offices vice axle upon which the controversy turns is ads for this position have been sent to under the chan- the Office of Student Affairs, with Vice the appropriate publications. The cellors and the report's suggestion that Chancellor of Student Affairs LeVester provost will be the senior administrator the Affirmative Action Office no longer Tubbs at the center. As a result of the in charge of academic functions. All the report to the chancellor. The Affirmative controversy, Vice Chancellor Tubbs has deans will report to him or her. Action move has been vetoed by the offered his resignation. "I have There is little controversy, however, chancellor, but other moves are still un- resigned," states Tubbs, "for two over the provost position. The position der consideration. The Financial Aid Of- reasons: lack of communication bet- most under fire is the executive vice fice move has already been accomplished continued on page ween me and the chancellor, and an chancellor position. If an executive vice 30

irresolvable difference in philosophy on chancellor office is created, both Tubbs what the role of Student Affairs at and Vice Chancellor of Administration UMass should be." and Finance Thomas Baxter will report

Reorganization, on an abstract level, to that office. Presently, they, as well as means a change in structure, a systemic the deans, Affirmative Action Officer overhaul. Reporting lines are Johnson, and Personnel Director Ed- changed; offices are moved from one munds, report directly to the chancellor. area to another. But the changes never With the two positions executive vice occur in the abstract. Philosophies about chancellor and provost, the the nature of the organization motivate organizational structure will be firmly changes, and people are hurt or helped divided into academic and non-academic by those changes. In addition, personal functions. politics play a major role in the kinds of The reasons stated by Assembly Long changes which come about. Range Planning Committee (LRPC) The tool of change is power. members, Corrigan and Broderick (both The Hierarchy ex-officio members of the Assembly LR- PC) for the new system is to reduce the When Chancellor Corrigan came to number of people reporting to the chan- UMass eight months ago, one of the first cellor. This is important, they feel, Wavelength 3 Faud Safwat 1§m -.:- '***»*«* iem—^

Jim Lonborg

Recalls His Red Sox Years

by Rick Bowers and A I McNeill

career. That year, Jim won twenty-two needed a place that provided the Jim Lonborg's career in medicine was in- games, providing consistency for the academics that would allow me to feel terrupted some years back when the tall, young Boston pitching staff, and beating comfortable in a scientific background. slender Californian left the pre-medical Minnesota Twins on the final day of the UMass offered me both those things." program at Stanford University and season to give Boston the pennant. So far, Jim says he has been able to

signed with the Boston Red Sox. Today Lonborg is thirty-six. His keep a fairly low profile at the university

The opportunity for "instant money", professional career is over, and as a and blend into the academic life here.

and a love of baseball drew Lonborg student at UMass, he is resuming the He's just another student, he points out, away from the halls of academia. After career he left behind so long ago. laboring over his books without any pay- proving himself to the Red Sox brass, he "Since I've arrived here I've been more checks coming in. On occasion, however, found himself in the starting rotation of than pleased with the university," Jim the former Red Sox star's unusual past the team's pitching staff. For the millions said in a recent interview. "I had made a does complicate the present a bit. of Sox fans who still remember the Im- decision to go to dental school, and I wan- "I remember sitting in one class when possible Dream season of 1 967, it's a good ted to find a school that would get me the professor asked us to sign our names thing Lonborg postponed his medical back into the flow of being a student. I to an attendance sheet," Jim laughs. "As I

Wavelength 4 was walking out of the room this guy looks at another guy and says 'who's that jerk who signed his name Jim Lon- borg?' These kinds of thingshappen every once in awhile. But, you know, I just consider myself to be another student."

Lonborg left Stanford in the spring of 1964 for spring training with the Sox. He received his undergraduate degree in 1966, finishing off a semester's worth of credits through correspondence courses while playing. He's currently boning-up here at UMass in preparation for the classes he will begin in July at Tufts Dental School. Lonborg compares playing with the Red Sox to being a college student. He chose UMass/Boston because he feels comfortable with our academic en- vironment and enjoys the number of older students who attend class here. When Lonborg recalls his old baseball days in Boston he rattles off such names

as Bill Monbouquette, Rico Petrocelli, Reggie Smith and Jerry Adair. He rarely gets out to Fenway Park to see the current team in action saying he prefers to watch the games on television from his home in Scituate. With his baseball career behind him, he spends as much time as possible with his wife and five children who saw him only sporadically when he was pitching for the Sox, the Brewers, and finally the Phillies. The biggest day of Jim Lonborg's major league career came in the final game of the 1967 season, the day the Im- possible Dream was transformed into

reality. It was October 1, 161 games had been played and the Red Sox found themselves desperately in need of one more victory. Boston's record was 91-70. The team they had to beat, Minnesota, had the same record, and Detroit had 90- 70 mark. The Tigers were playing a double header in Chicago and needed a sweep to tie the winner of the Red Sox- Twins game. As Lonborg walked to the mound that day, he knew a victory meant, at worst, a tie with Detroit; at best, a pennant for the Sox. A loss meant The Dream was dead. Despite the fact that the Sox had tur-

ned the early season, 100 to 1 odds, into even money, there was an air of pessimism among the Fenway faithful that day. Lonborg had never beaten the Twins, and with Dean Chance pitching, they were indeed a formidable foe. Chan- ce had a history of giving Boston batters fits. He had allowed only six runs in the last four starts against the Sox, and with hitters like Harmen Killibrew and Tony Oliva behind him, he was awesome. In

Wavelength 5 addition, as all true Red Sox fans know, Lonborg is home Ned Martin called the shot. the team has a tradition of snatching Adair is around third, he 11 score Jones is safely to third and defeat from the jaws of victory. Red Sox Jim Lonborg is one out away from his fans that day were by no means it's tied — two-two biggest victory ever irrational. His After Yaz's heroics, the Twins fell twenty-second of the year Although Lonborg pitched master- apart. They threw to wrong bases, made Hisfirst against the Twins fully, he couldn't wipe away those wild pitches, had an error in the field. By The pitch is looped toward short stop grimaces of doubt. The Twins scored the inning's end, Dean Chance had not Petrocelli is back early on first a inning double by Oliva only left the game, but had left Fenway He's got it and it 2-0 in made the third, capitalizing and was on his way back to chilly Min- The Red Sox win on an error by Yaz in left. By fifth in- nesota. The Red Sox had plated five runs There's pandemonium on thefield. ning, the situation was grave. Chance, and now Lonborg was assigned the dif- who was known to get stronger as the ficult task of stifling the powerful Twins When Rico Petrocelli squeezed that game progressed, was safely through the offense, he got into trouble in the eighth light fly ball off Rollin's bat and ended the all hell early innings, and the Minnesota ace was when Bob Allison hit a rope into the left game, broke loose at Fenway. mowing down Boston batters with corner. Killibrew scored from second and Fans surged onto the field in a mass of relative ease. By the sixth inning, the Oliva was rounding third when Allison frenzied excitement. Red Sox euphoria Red Sox needed a hero. Jim Lonborg led decided to test Yastremski's aim. Yaz, had turned into outright madness. The off with what was to become one of the playing the wall cleanly in the left, plan- throng hoisted Lonborg onto their club's most illustrious frames. ted his foot against the wall and gunned shoulders, kids climbed the backstops, even those who were Jim didn't let the perched on the fans down. He didn't billboard outside the slam one of his rare park released their grips homeruns, but he did and threw their hands lay down a bunt, an into the air. Shouts of unfieldable bunt that "We're number one!" caught third baseman were everywhere. Ceasar Tovar flat- Respectable people footed and brought who had left their 37,770 fans out of their homes nervously had seats. "Chance falls off been transformed into the mound when he fanatics. The Im- pitches and Tovar was possible Dream had playing deep," Jim said come true. later. "Besides, the last When Jim Lonborg thing they expected signed his 1968 con- was a bunt." tract, he was asked by Even the most the Red Sox pragmatic Sox fans will management not to ski concede that Lonborg's because they feared he fifty-foot roller down might injure himself on the third base line was the slopes. He did not UMass/Boston student Jim Lonborg tephunieltomano, the catalyst for the comply with their a strike to second base, nailing Allison request. He continued to ski, not to spite team's sixth inning rally. Jim carefully and saving another run. It 5-3, was now the Sox management, but because, for edged off first, Jerry Adair laid his bat and the Sox needed three only more Jim, skiing was one of the most exciting across the plate and peered intently out outs. activities outside of baseball. "When toward Chance. Bang — a base hit to one in Fenway park sat for No down you're skiing, you're fighting the moun- center sending Lonborg to second and the ninth inning. The faces that had been tain," proclaimed Jim. On a fateful day in bringing up Dalton Jones. He followed with were tinged pessimism now December of 1967, the management's Adair's act with another single but the gleaming with expectation, the and more fears were confirmed as Jim lost the fight screaming throng wouldn't be quieted. toward exuberant fans edged the railings, to the mountain. With the bases loaded and only one out, anxious to flood the field after the final On December 23, while making the last Yaz stepped to the plate and the Fenway out. Ted Ulander momentarily quelled run down the mountain slopes of Lake faithful sensed that the tide had turned. their by leading off the enthusiasm Twins Tahoe, Jim tore two ligaments in his left The stage was set, the actors had their ninth with a single, but Rod Carew hit in- knee. He was immediately taken to the roles and Red Sox broadcaster, Ken to a double play. Rich Rollins was now the hospital where they placed his leg in a Coleman, described the drama: batter. Jim Lonborg and the Boston Red temporary cast. Jim was then driven to Sox stood a single out away from clin- San Francisco, where he spent Christmas Chance leans in ching at least a share of the American Eve at his parent's home. On Christmas Right hander to the belt League flag - and nearly 40,000 people Day, Jim was examined by Doctor He throws — inside the park, plus thousands more out- Solloveif, a leading knee doctor in Yastremski swings and lines a base hit in side, were to explode. ready California, who recommended he fly to centerfield Wavelength 6 back to Boston and have his leg operated anxious" and to trying to make a come ON DICK WILLIAMS on as soon as possible. On December 26, back too early in response to the

Jim arrived in Boston and was examined pressures exerted on him. I think Dick Williams has to be one of by Doctor Tierney. On the following day, In 1970 Jim oscillated between good the real strong sources of the team's suc-

December 27, Tierney and his surgical and bad pitching performances; between cess. He instilled an awful lot of talent team operated on Lonborg. The the minor and major leagues. Despite the and direction into that hodge-podge of 4-1 operation was deemed successful, and the fact that he had a record of when he talent that was going off in all different doctors predicted Jim would be able to pitched for the Sox, he showed little of his directions. He got the support from the pitch in two months. Cy Young Award winning form. He front office to just come down and bang On February 7, the cast was removed spent a great deal of time in the Red Sox heads, and get everybody going in the from Lonborg's leg and his rigorous road farm system at Louisville, where he was right direction, which he did. He instilled to rehabilitation began. However, Jim gearing up to make a comeback. into his players the importance of win- was to be plagued with physical ailments Lonborg started the 1 97 1 season in the ning every single day, without exception, and social pressures while striding down minor leagues. He had a bad spring which is the way it should be. Of course, the arduous road to recovery. training, showing only momentary glim- in order to do that, he made fundamental '67." Lonborg's 1968 season began badly. pses of "the old Lonborg of For the baseball a way of life for us. He would use On March 25, Haywood Sullivan an- last time, the Sox management sent him some not-so-pleasant things to get things nounced that Jim might be placed on the to the minor leagues so he could regain done. For instance, he would verbally restricted list. When a player is placed on his confidence and pitching ability. When abuse you if you constantly made stupid this list he is ineligible for payment. The they called on Jim in the latter half of the mistakes. I think all of us got tired of press sensationalized this incident, 1971 season, he was ready. He posted a being verbally abused and just became claiming it was a form of punishment im- 10-7 record. He had made his comeback. better players. posed on Jim because he failed to comply The three years of rehabilitation, where with the management's request not to ski. he had met with physical ailments, social ON 1967 Reporters inferred the management was pressures, and frustrations were behind punishing Lonborg and that being placed him and he was ready once again to pitch Well, Carl had an excellent year, I had on the restricted list amounted to no in the Major Leagues. His team-mates a very good year, and a lot of people had more than a fine. However, during a and the Red Sox fans were behind him good contributing-type seasons. It's hard recent interview with Jim we asked him one-hundred percent. to say about the '67 season because a lot about this situation. He said, "They did On October 11, 1971, the Red Sox of teams had a chance to win that thing that mainly for roster reasons. . . They management negotiated a trade with the at the end. The White Sox in particular. weren't doing it to punish me. They Milwaukee Brewers. Jim Lonborg was Then we did. In that last week, on Thur- weren't doing it in order to be in a part of that trade. The trade sent George sday, we lost to Cleveland. That really position not to pay me." The final out- Scott, Ken Brett, Billy Conigliaro, Joe dampened our hopes. But then, Thursday come was that Lonborg was not placed Lahoud, Don Paveletich, and JIM LON- night, the White Sox had two of their pit- on the restricted list, but was sent down BORG to Milwaukee in exchange for chers blown out of the ballpark. They to the minor leagues instead; thus, Marty Pattin, Tommy Harper, Leu dropped a double-header, and all of a sud- enabling him to be paid, and to get into Krause, and a minor league ballplayer. den, we were right back in it. There was shape for the '68 season. Jim's career with the Red Sox had en- an awful lot of timing that was im- Jim was well ahead of his rehabilitation ded. portant. We were in the right place at the schedule in the Spring of 1968 when arm "Lonborg's a pro who made a right time. And then, to have the whole

and shoulder problems cropped up. The comeback. I didn't think we could get season climax in a final weekend series basic reason for these ailments was over- him; they gave him up reluctantly," said was a very unique build-up of emotion. anxiousness. "I tried to throw too hard, the Milwaukee Brewer's general All that time - and the struggle came too early," explained Lonborg. manager. In his post-Red Sox era, Jim down to the very end. And in a sense, the Throughout the year, he was plagued Lonborg proved he was a pro and he did World Series was anti-climatic because with these problems and was unable to come back; again, and again, and again. there was just so much emotion jammed recreate the phenomenal year of 1967. Throughout the remainder of his into that last weekend, into our last game. The Cy Young Award winner plum- Major League career, Lonborg continued meted from a 22-9 record to a dismal to comeback. The years he spent in ON THE FINAL GAME record well under the .500 mark. Milwaukee and in Philadelphia were Very obviously, the last day of the In 1969 Lonborg went to spring fruitful ones. He maintained better than a season was the most exciting day of my training ready to prove he could re- .500 mark in his pitching, and at one time career. It was my single most exciting duplicate his 1 967 record. However, arm won eighteen games for Philadelphia. game. To be able to pitch in a game for troubles again kept him from pitching the Although he never had another year like the pennant to be carried off the field on way he had in '67. "I had a lot of pressure '67, he proved he was a Major League pit- the shoulders of the fans knowing that on me after having a great year in '67. I cher, and, above all, a professional. When you're going into a World Series was in a position where nobody told me he was released in June 1979 by the situation, or at least you've got a shot at to take my time, to do it this way and Philadelphia Phillies, the title of "Gen- it. Had Detroit won, we would have faced you'll be fine. But instead it was a matter tleman Jim" was still his. a play-off. It was the single most exciting of 'hurry up!' You have to get in shape. A few weeks ago, Lonborg discussed part of my career. The club needs you," he said while reflec- his years with the Red Sox in general and ting back on his year of 1969. He at- the '67 season in particular. The continued on page 45 tributes his arm troubles to being "over following is a series of excerpts Wavelength 7 Racial Tensions atUMass

by Rick Bowers Wavelength: You've been on the UMass/ Interview Boston faculty for ten years now. How

Black professors, administrators, and has the racial climate changed here? students at the University of with Blackwell: I think in the early part of Massachusetts at Boston are expressing this decade there was a tendency for people to reach out and understand each concern about the school's racial climate, James Blackwell and, in some cases, anger over the policy other and to try and establish significant Professor Blackwell b an influential working relationships with each other. decisions that are affecting it. The sur- prisingly low percentage of tenured member of UMass/Boston's Black There was a difference in the hiring pat- find today, I think that's blacks on the faculty, the racial dif- Faculty Caucus and has been a faculty terns than you ferences between factions of the student member herefor over ten years. where you get a lot of the problems government, and a controversial plan to today. The hiring problems, the tenure

Wavelength: As a sociologist, how would . . . bring to fore perceptions reorganize the administration have in- problems you define racial tension? manifestations of racism. fluential members of the UMass/Boston and Blackwell: Racial tension, in sociological minority community questioning the In the first part of this decade, we had terms, refers to the anxieties and stresses a committment from the top that per- direction in which the university is moving. and weaknesses in interactions between meated the entire structural fabric of the persons of different racial groups. This the faculty. "I don't think there's any doubt that administration and They may be lodged in the feelings of hostility tried to hire people who were representa- the university is moving in the wrong people have, purely on the basis of race. so direction regarding race relations," says tive of the Boston community we Wavelength: Would you say that racial Sociology Professor James Blackwell. could have a diverse faculty, a diverse tension manifests itself here at UMass/ diverse administration; "The more and more we create situations student body, a Boston in any particular way? ethnically. I don't believe where we don't want blacks in leadership racially, and Blackwell: Of course, it certainly does in that committment, positions on this campus, the more and we have had same a variety of ways ... I think the manifes- that same ferver since 1974. The data more that smacks of racism in its rawest tations can be both overt and covert. clearly shows that we had in excess of form." They may be in terms of the subtle fifty full and part-time black faculty Blackwell is not alone in his criticisms things people do to each other at the members. That has been cut by fifty per- of the UMass/Boston racial situation. Af- department level, at the office level. It cent. firmative Action Officer Robert Johnson may be manifested in the lack of inter- Wavelength: What about the argument claims that the university is guilty of "in- action between them, based purely upon of these faculty members left stitutionalized discrimination." Members that many their discomfort in interacting with a for better jobs their own volition? of the Black Faculty Caucus have on person of another race. It may be based Blackwell: There are those who argue characterized the university's com- on their isolation from each other, and it this, as our chancellor has, and that "may mitment to hiring black faculty members may even be manifested in their overt very well be the case, but it is only a par- as "half-hearted." And Vice Chancellor behavior toward each other. That is, tial truth because it does not get at the of Student Affairs, LeVester Tubbs, sometimes people do say and do racist particular who's recent resignation announcement situations within those things ... it happens. It's real, but I stunned the UMass community, claims academic departments that made it easy think we are guilty of intellectualizing accept those other that a plan to reorganize the ad- for these persons to patterns of behavior and not confronting jobs. If a person is told, not time and ministration has "serious racial over- these things head on. time again, but even' once, "the real tones" and is "insensitive to blacks."

"When I arrived at UMass/Boston in 1972, blacks on campus were a greater The tremors shaking UMass/Boston's members. This particular problem is

number than they are today on a per- racial landscape are also catapulting it in- epitomized by the English Department centage basis," says Tubbs. "The black to the local media. Channel 7's "Black which has no black faculty members faculty was actually more involved in News" recently completed a three-part among the department's ninety-six determining the academic mission of the series on racial tensions at teachers. institution and really concerned with UMass/Boston. According to a member Institutionalized discrimination, racial

what was happening. There was more of Channel 7's staff, the "station was vir- tension, racial overtones - in some ways black awareness on the part of the tually bombarded with calls" about racial these terms defy proof and clear

student population. I think in recent problems at the university. The inquiry definitions. But a number of recent in- years that's disappeared. I'm not concluded that the minority hiring record terviews indicate that there are common criticizing the black faculty and staff for at Boston's only urban state university threads woven through the perceptions of

not being active, it's because we've lost so was dismal: nine departments have many influential blacks at many leaders. never had any full-time black faculty UMass/Boston. Among them are the

Wavelength 8 Pushing Blacks to the Limit

to that people ought to at least talk to you and reason you were hired is because you are Blackwell: Well, my answer universities find deal with you as they relate to those black," and the person who is saying this would be, if other can responsibilities. But when you're cir- dismisses all of the high standards and them, why can't we? What is it about cumvented, and you're a minority in a qualities that person has, by any ob- the nature of this university that would situation, things you're jective measures, then that person make tenurable blacks say, "I don't want and when working for have been totally destroyed - is going to quit, naturally, and is going to to come to the University of - interpret that kind of a remark as a very Massachusetts at Boston?" If they do and you've had nothing to do with it well, I can't feel racial over- racist comment. I have been told that come, they sense here something existing help but these kinds of things have been told to on this campus which makes them feel tones." Tubbs also says that weakening the Of- black faculty and administrators at this "this is not the place for me". We have fice of Student Affairs will adversely af- campus. In instances like this, there is to do a great deal of introspection and reason to question the motivations, and examination about ourselves — in terms fect black students on campus. As the sometimes the motivations lead to sem- of our intent, the signals we com- highest ranking black administrator, he blances of racism. municate to people, subtle cues we give has been active in pre-freshman programs Wavelength: Is the university moving to people which tell them "we are going geared at helping students overcome the backwards in regards to race relations? through the motions, but we don't in- shortcomings of the urban educational

Blackwell: Very definitely so. I think it tend to hire you at all." Or do we com- system. He has been active in recruiting is one thing to put out a number of municate to them a sense of and enrolling minority students, and he pronouncements, and quite another to genuineness? If we do feel that you're has worked closely with black cultural translate them into action. There is no the person for us, we will hire you, as op- groups on campus in planning lectures mistake that the chancellor has ar- posed to going through some ineffectual and events that relate to black students.

it I ticulated his personal committment to af- kinds of motion . . . Look, since 1970, "I made very clear that can't be just firmative action in any number of ways. this society has trained more than triple a black vice chancellor," he emphasizes, The problem concerns transforming the the number of blacks alone with PhD's, "I have to be in a position to deal with all rhetoric into manifest action. Where and other universities are hiring them. students at this institution ... on the there is no evidence of this, people feel it They're reaching out. They're making an other hand I also have to be a role may be no more than lip service. I think, honest and genuine effort to go out and model, an image, an advisor and coun- with regard to faculty and staff, it is find those persons. Why can't we? selor for the black students." necessary for this university to do more Wavelength: Do you think the univer- Another racial overtone that Tubbs than pay lip service to the idea of hiring sity is doing enough to attract and keep sees in the reorganization plan is in its ef- more minorities and it is absurd to say minority students here? fect of distributing minority personnel that we cannot find minorities equally as Blackwell: From all I can see, I don't from his office to other offices in the ad- competent, if not more competent than think the university really is. We get ministration. Currently, there are ten white faculty members and white ad- some contradictory statistics about the minority personnel in Student Affairs. ministrators on this campus. That's number of minority students on this Chancellor Robert Corrigan strongly ridiculous to say. campus, depending on what comes denies that the intent of reorganization is Wavelength: In a conversation I had through one office compared with what to "spread out" minorities among the ad- with the chancellor today, he said the comes through another office. The ministration. A recent draft of an ad- university had failed in finding proportion of minority students on this ministration report called "The Mid- "tenurable blacks." Do you think this is campus ought to be significantly higher Fiscal Year Report to the Board of a real problem? continued to page 29 Trustees", however, strongly implies that the university should be doing just that. issues of tenure for black faculty mem- Office, has already been implemented. If "Statistically speaking, there is no bers, UMass/Boston's "lukewarm" com- fully implemented, the plan will move major shortage of minorities in mitment to affirmative action, and the Tubbs down one level in the ad- professional staff positions," the report reorganization plan that led to the ministrative hierarchy and will move states. "Nevertheless, the concern on the resignation of the most senior black ad- several offices presently under his part of the campus is that minority ap- ministrator at the university. jurisdiction to other areas of the hierar- pointments be spread over a broader On January 18, Vice Chancellor of chy. The university's highest ranking range of support programs within the Student Affairs LeVester Tubbs was in- black administrator claims that the campus and not be concentrated in one or formed by Chancellor Robert Corrigan of proposal has "racial overtones" and is "in- two areas." a plan to reorganize the university's ad- sensitive to blacks on campus." "He said something very stupid in his ministrative structure. A portion of the "I refer to racial overtones largely mid-year report to the trustees," claims plan, which moves the Financial Aid Of- because I've been circumvented," Tubbs John Robinson, Director of the fice from Tubbs' authority in Student Af- says of the reorganization plan. "To me, UMass/Boston Counseling Center. "He fairs to the jurisdiction of the Admissions as a person in charge of responsibilities. said we have enough minorities on cam- Wavelength 9 "

pus but we need to 'redistribute' them. I mean, he may think that but to have the nerve to put it in writing! ...You're damn right it was deleted. He wouldn't have got off this campus alive without deleting it."

On February 7, Tubbs announced his intention to leave the university. Angry over Corrigan's decision to move the Financial Aid Office from his jurisdiction, Tubbs says there is a philosophical difference between his and Corrigan's view of how Student Affairs should function. Corrigan acknowledges the difference, saying that the office should be a student-service oriented department. Tubbs believes his office should provide advocacy and aid to students as well as services. For Tubbs, the reorganization plan represents a significant depletion of power. In addition, he views his "com- Affirmative Action Officer Robert Johnson munication problems" with Corrigan as an indication that the current ad- university's racial history, saying that his Johnson also points to the new ministration has no intention of dealing office has never had the support it needs reorganization plan as an example of how with him. When discussing whether he to deal effectively with Affirmative Action Affirmative Action considerations are could live with the implementation of programs. not taken seriously when cmapus policies the plan, Tubbs said that he had "never "When I first came here, I gave the ad- are being formulated. Had he been in-

been a puppet" and "didn't plan to be ministration a proposal on how I thought formed of the plan when it was being anyone's showcase nigger." the Affirmative Action Office should drafted, he says, he could have pointed

out the problems it created for some blacks on campus. "Affirmative Action must be a con- "Affirmative Action is placed on a back sideration at every level of decision," he burner. They don't see to involve the claims. "That's not happening. Af- fit firmative Action is placed on a back bur- Affirmative Action Officer in high level ner. They don't see fit to involve the Af- firmative Action Officer in high-level policy, policies." Robert Johnson One of Johnson's strongest criticisms of reorganization concerns its symbolic significance for blacks on campus. "The

"One of the things that is - the concerns me operate and the kind of staff it needed," demotion of Vice Chancellor Tubbs that this issue is basically on the struc- he says. "I have not received any positive most senior black administrator at the tures of the campus, but keeps on getting responses, even from the chancellor. Af- university - only reinforces in many

turned into a black-white issue," says firmative Action is not a priority at most people's minds the idea that the univer-

Corrigan. "Tubbs happens to be institutions; people don't really care sity is not responsive to the minority com-

black. ..I think it will be unfortunate if about it." munity," says Johnson.

the issue continues to be addressed in Since his hiring a year ago, Johnson Tenure is another area where Johnson

racial rather than structural terms." has stated a number of times that his of- has found it difficult to turn his recom-

fice needs more personnel if it is to be ef- mendations into reality. He claims that Affirmative Action fective. At this time a proposal from Affirmative Action considerations

Johnson to the chancellor is sitting on should be weighed in all stages of the The Office of Affirmative Action was Corrigan's desk requesting one additional tenure process. University policy, created in an attempt to help cure full-time staff member. According to however is to weight such considerations

UMass/Boston's racial ills. However, Af- Johnson, the added staff member would only after a tenure candidate has met firmative Action Officer Robert Johnson free him up to work in areas such as other criteria. Johnson has had little suc- is skeptical about the role his office can student enrollment, which are presently cess in convincing the administration play in increasing the number of black being neglected because of understaffing. that increasing the number of minority faculty members, in assisting black Nonetheless, Johnson and his secretary faculty members should be one of many professors embroiled in controversial remain the only members of the considerations in the initial tenure tenure disputes, and in overseeing student UMass/Boston's Affirmative Action Of- review. enrollment. Johnson is also critical of the fice. Dean Michael Riccard's record of continued on page 28 Wavelength 10 1

by Stephen G. Cain A Case in Point:

The tenure case of Dr. Jefferson

Cleveland is the latest entry into UMass/Boston's embarrassingly bad The Tenure Trials of record of not holding on to black faculty. Dr. Cleveland, one of the most popular

professors at the university, is the only black faculty member in the Music Dr. Jefferson Cleveland Department. He has taught full-time at

UMass since 1973 but, when his con- mitted during his absence - a violation of SNAP, the Urban League, and he tapes tract expires in August, 1980, he will be the tenure procedure. Cleveland at least two religious TV shows for Chan-

out of a job, and UMass will be left with requested an extension over the Christ- nel 7 every Sunday. Cleveland also a Music Department comprised entirely mas vacation to finish compiling the received a unanimous vote for tenure of white males. tenure dossier but was refused by the from his department. One of his major

Cleveland's tenure case has been dean. He was told that December 1 1 was submissions for the category of scholarly fraught with bureaucratic errors and im- the final date. The dossier Cleveland sub- activity was his authorship of a new procedures from the very beginning. In mitted on the 11th was, he felt, "in- United Methodist hymnbook. The new late October of 1978, Cleveland was told complete." hymnbook is being distributed by Department Chairman John Huggler The dossier went to the Collegiate throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, that the deadline for submission of his Personnel Committee for evaluation. The and parts of Africa to the over 10 million tenure dossier to Dean Riccards was final vote was 3 for granting tenure, 3 United Methodists. December 10. On November 15, against, and one abstention. The reasons Cleveland feels, "One of the crucial

Cleveland was informed that the actual for this non-vote were based on the com- issues is that they do not know how to date for submission was November 10. mittee's inability to decide if Cleveland's evaluate my work, and they have not

Cleveland worked from that Wednesday outside activities were service or sought a means to evaluate it nor have evening until 3:30 a.m. Saturday at- professional activities. Also, the com- they contacted me for suggestions. One

tempting to put together a respectable mittee felt Cleveland's department had colleague referred to this work (the hymn- dossier. At 5:30 a.m., he woke to a phone not made a strong enough case for the book) as a 'cultural artifact.' It is not an call from a detective in Euclid, Ohio in- granting of tenure. Cleveland feels this artifact. It is a piece of legitimate research

forming him of the murders of a younger sentiment hinged upon a particularly and it is derogatory to call it an artifact. brother and sister. Cleveland left im- weak letter of recommendation written The hymnbook is not intended for a small mediately for Ohio and went from there by John Huggler. segment of people It has been written for to Georgia where the deceased were in- However, one committee member all denominations." terred. He returned on December 4 to said Cleveland should be awarded tenure The dean evaluated Cleveland's case

find that the dean had not stopped the on the strength of his community in- and turned it down. Cleveland recalls, tenure process and that evaluations from volvement alone. Cleveland has done "The dean requested student the Music Department had been sub- volunteer work for Lena Park, NAACP, evaluations. The amount of evaluations that were available did not reflect the

amount of students I had taught or the

number of courses I had taught, and because of that he decided he would give

me less than excellence in teaching and I

have gotten excellence in teaching all along." Cleveland claims part of his

student evaluation file was lost by the department and that some letters were removed by John Huggler because they were unfavorable to the Music Depart- ment as a whole. "In essence, they said

that I was the best teacher in the depart-

ment. One student said that if it were

not for me it would be simply demoralizing to be a music major. Another student said she had taken theory with two other professors here at the university and had heard so much about me that she audited my theory class. She said she was so glad she had taken my class because the range of

material I gave out and the way I taught the class far superseded any of the Jefferson Cleveland is one of the blacks denied tenure by the university continued on page 36

Wavelength 1 ByD. NealandR. Powers Wavelength: What are some of the better Crocked: I have found, and I believe that

known dishes? Pierre will agree, that the salad bar is In the beginning there was Haute La Puque: Each cafeteria has a distinctive beyond reproach.

Cuisine, then Joe and Nemo's, and on the style . . . La Puque: But of course. day of rest, while someone was sleeping, Crocked: And odor. Crocked: The scheme is magnificent, the (and all the other eateries were closed) La Puque: Ah, oui, the magnificent yellows of the lettuce, the greens of the DAKA was created. If you know about fragance of the hamburgers frying in tomatoes, beautiful, simply beautiful. Rosemary's Baby then you'll understand your 010 — Par Excellent! Where else can you create a masterpiece when we say this was Julia's Child. This Crocked: No, no my dear, it is the hot for only 1 2 cents an ounce? year, to the surprise of no one, the many dogs. La Puque: And mon chere, we must not quaint bistros located on our campus La Puque: Mon Chere, the combination forget the dressings, coagulating so super- have been among the top contenders for of the two is a symphony to the nose. bly. the International Greasy Spoon Award. Pure magic. Crocked: And speaking of coagulation, Our campus was recently graced with Crocked: We also found delightful the the gravys that surround some of the two world famous chefs, the queen of arrangement of the condiments and the main aisnes tney are memorable. Really

American cookery, Betsy Crocked, and abundance of insect life. Amazing! quite unlike anything I have yet seen in the renowned French chef, Pierre La Wavelength: What is it about the ham- this competition. Puque. The following interview shall burgers that is so outstanding? Wavelength: Is atmosphere also judged in leave no doubt concerning the out- La Puque: The versatilite, but of course. the competition? standing qualities that make our Wavelength: Versatility? La Puque: Oui, and what 010 may lack in cafeterias so well suited to win the award. Crocked: Yes. They can either be con- cuisine it more than compensated for in Wavelength: Why are the UMass/Boston sumed, or for variety they are also ex- atmosphere. cafeterias in the running for this in- cellent pucks for hockey. There are Crocked: Oh the lovely view of the gas famous award? rumors that several players of hockey tanks is marred only by the blinding af- Crocked: By foot and mouth, oh excuse swear by them as the best of the best as ternoon sun on the harbor. Of course, for me, word of mouth, news has spread far as pucks are concerned. a quieter aquatic scene there is always the through the Boston area that the food La Puque: Mais Oui and the pool. So interesting to watch belly flops here is out of this world. cheeseburgers make les frisbees with brunch. La Puque: More specifically, my dear, magnifique. And the price — beyond La Puque: But the dining room's hours from another planet. We felt that as such, compare. are one of its best features. Imagine we should investigate some of the more Wavelength: What other foods have you closing at 3:00 (I believe they start the renowned entrees. enjoyed in the 010 cafeteria? process of closing much earlier) when, as

Wavelength 12 I understand it, your so called "free standards of the Greasy Spoon Award period" begins at 2:30. The arrangement and if not this year, then next they should

is excellent from our point of view. ^ win this honor. Wavelength: How do you both feel about 2 Wavelength: But what about the the other eating facilities that are offered? s remaining food services? More Crocked: Well, as we moved across the specifically, Earth Foods and the Faculty campus we anticipated similar high stan- Lounge. dards. We were not disappointed. Crocked: My dears, these were not even La Puque: The cafeteria in your building considered in the running. 020, although apparently not as spacious La Puque: Unfortunately they have no as 010, has a distinctive flavor of its own. place in our competition. The sailboat salad bar and the abundance Wavelength: But why? of cash registers surpasses the 010 ex- La Puque: Earth Foods for instance has a perience. Again the display of the con- limited menu that needs beefing up. And diments, the relish, the ketchup, the the atmosphere is just not right. Far too, mustard, are even more unbelievable how do you say, pleasant. Also they lack

than 010. something but I cannot quite place it.

Crocked: I love the way the cream pit- "This is just not greasy spoon material. Crocked: It is the preservatives and chers form delicate ring patterns on the Betsy Crocked chemicals my dear.

table top. The fare here is consistent with La Puque: Ah yes. It is the snap, the zest the quality of the 010 cafeteria. However, of additives that they have not quite cap- the atmosphere in this building should be of the same high quality. A spoon does tured.

ranked higher. There's something about not stand on its own in it. Crocked: They are far too mellow for the the traffic on Morrissey Boulevard on the La Puque: However, the single file award. one hand, and the stimulation of the arrangement of food acquisition com- La Puque: And they provide table-cloths.

Science Building on the other that even pares much more favorably than the open Checkered no less! But their satellite san-

the pool of 010 cannot contend with. spaces of 1 and 020. dwich and soup stand could create a

La Puque: I was especially impressed Crocked: Yes. The close quarters of this place in our hearts if only they would with the method of tray and dish disposal. cafeteria offer the unique opportunity of replace the bland with some hearty

American technology is wonderful. sampling your neighbor's meal without grease. Crocked: But Pierre, you're jumping straining your back. Crocked: And as for the Faculty Lounge,

ahead much too fast. We have neglected La Puque: Ah — and I was amoured with what can I say? They have a wine list, the wonderful soups. the terrace that provides a view of unlimited portions, and an eleventh story

La Puque: You are absolutely correct. nothing and goes nowhere. A wonderful view of Boston. This is just not Greasy

There is something exquisite about their visual feast of bricks. But Betsy, I know Spoon material. There is something not

chicken noodle soup. I believe it has to do you had strong feelings about the early quite right about busboys in white with the absence of chicken and noodles. morning repast. jackets. And the color co-ordinated

Crocked: I was impressed with what was Crocked: I was both amazed and disap- napkins and table cloths were just a tad to

called a ham salad sandwich. It had the pointed in their vast breakfast menu but pretentious. The bookish atmosphere is a delightful consistency and flavor of a one can only hope that they improve with bit constrained, yet watching the comings cur's regurgitation. time. Their pre-wrapped sandwiches and and goings of jets from the airport does

La Puque: You are quite correct. It was Greek salads show that they are earnestly create an interesting alternative to in-

among my favorites. The desserts make headed in the right direction. tellectual conversation. It is an at-

an excellent final touch. La Puque: As far as we are concerned, mosphere that is just too restrained, too Crocked: You're right. Crusty jello and these three cafeterias do meet the high confining — not unlike some of the scummy pudding, especially when em- continued on page 44 bellished with non-dairy, non-whipped, toppings and crowned with five day old

marachino cherry is my idea of an A No.

1 finale to a greasy spoon meal. Wavelength: Was there anything else that caught your attention on campus? La Puque and Crocked: Yes. Yes. Crocked: Although the management of the administration cafeteria might not be the same as 010 and 020, the quality level remains the same.

La Puque: I agree. Although petite the gusto with which the nutrients are served is consistent with that of its sibling cafeterias. "The yellows of the lettuce, the greens of the tomatoes, beautiful, simply Crocked: Unfortunately the coffee is not beautiful." Betsv Crocked

Wavelength 13 It's funny how you read all those stories about first love and always so innocent and soft. All flowers and baby powder

and stolen kisses. Well, Billy had a full-grown beard when I

him, heavy, curly, and some kind of red like a wild fox. I guess

you could say our affair was nothing if it wasn't dirty and funky as that old run-down store.

We didn't have a shower there. I used to swim in the pool at school just to take a shower afterwards. Had to rip off a

bathing suit too and the ugly pea-green thing didn't even fit. That place we lived in was just a big room, shaped like a rec- tangle with skinny useless windows way too high to see anything out of. Right in the middle was this greasy wood

display case with a glass front. You could tell they used it in the old store for displaying stuff - candy bars, band-aids, shaving cremes, toothpaste, ace-bandages.

One side had these long shelves that went all the way up to the ceiling and there was this crapped-up black linoleum, kind of blotchy and caked with crud. On the other side was an old soda fountain, built-in, with the square aluminum holes for the sauces. They had hot fudge, butterscotch, and strawberry.

Some of them still had labelled lids, that's how I know, and even ladles sticking out of the holes. Way up front, near the door, was Billy's old second-hand

baby grand. It was was out of tune really bad. All over the top

of it were these round rings from his glasses of Jim Beam he'd put there when he was playing and a lot of cigarette burns from when people couldn't find an ashtray so they'd leave the

cigarette lying over the edge, but it would burn down, you

know, and make a little black dent. You couldn't move a damn thing in that place. The soda fountain wouldn't budge from the wall, the case weighed

about a hundred tons. I think that crappy linoleum was glued down with industrial cement, that kind you see on T.V. where

it holds steel beams together.

I'm telling you all this stuff because I know this doesn't Billy sound like much of a place for first love, if you know what I mean, but I swear, making love with him was always good

and I mean always. I saw him after that one time in a bar

somewhere and we left right away and got it on in the front

seat of his old truck and he kept on saying "Oh mama, I miss

ya so bad - why dont'cha come back. And even though the

seat was all torn up and the stuffing was coming out and

there was a bunch of greasy rags and oil cans and stuff in

there, it was still the best. I bet it'd still be good today. I can A Short Story tell you, no man ever made me feel so good.He knew just how to move, but he never made me feel like he was trying, you know, to make me feel good. Even now sometimes I

think, when I'm blue over some man I got a thing for who doesn't even notice me, I'm gonna go back there and find

that Billy - never met a man could move so smooth.

But he was a drinker. I knew that first night I met him cuz by we sat up all night drinking Jim Beam. I liked to drink all right myself, but he'd get kind of crazy - not violent or anything - but he'd cry. And sometimes I'd get mad and say "I don't

wanna be your mother, I wanna be your lover." (Because his mother, see, she just kind of took off when he was twelve.) But he'd always end up getting me going again, no matter how drunk he was, and that's another way he was different from a

Nichols I Maris lot of men know.

It was funny how we met. I was out in the bars listening to

music and I brushed my hair real good that night so it was full

of electricity and shiny as a polished tea kettle. I knew I looked good too, cuz the men were checking me out and a couple kept

Wavelength 14 "

old for me, just because he never finished high asking me to dance, but I was getting kind of bored. I didn't he was too feel like dancing because it was too crowded and the music was school. crummy. So when that band went on break and the guy came That's howcome I ended up living in that old store. to to hell and then I started shoving a out and said there was gonna be a back-up band I figured I I told my mother go I could find. might as well just leave because they're probably gonna be bunch of stuff into bags and boxes; whatever mother, being worse than the other band. I suppose I don't need to tell you my doesn't believe in premarital sex and when she found Well, I was just about to leave too when I heard that voice. Catholic, it, she got real upset and said later Thick and smooth like whiskey, but with a rough-edge grit un- out me and Billy were doing marry and I certainly didn't in- derneath. I never heard anything like it before, except maybe I'd never find a man who'd me him, did I? And my father came in during all on records. I guess it was about the sexiest voice I ever heard, tend to marry to know kind of like a cross between a black man's voice and a white this and said, "You think I want everyone my daughter's shacked up with some shiftless good-for-nothing? man's voice - you know the kind I mean, warm and low- for swearing usually, but that time I down dirty, not flat but drawn-out, long, the kind of voice Now, I'm not much shack up with him because I love him full of the bad-love blues that makes you want to love that said, "Well, I'm gonna don't need to go making it into some vulgar goddam man right for one time in his life. and you give a fuck for getting married and I probably I started picking my way back down to a hole in the crowd thing. I don't I give a goddam if I don't." so I could see where that voice was coming from. Now he never will and don't color. wasn't some big guy with a lot of muscles, just kind of skinny Well, my father turned a kind of grey-looking He mother said, with long legs. His face was half-hid in the shadows and his looked real bad, like he wanted to hit me, but my eyes were closed, but when he put his head back, the light "Let her be. She's just upset, she doesn't know what she's real cuz I knew exactly what made shadows on his cheeks and his eye sockets looked like lit- saying." And that made me mad, tle caves. His beard flashed under the lights in the bar, giving I was saying and I meant every word of it. off its own little sparks of gold electricity. Well I stood there listening to that voice til the first band "No way I'm getting came back on and then he walked right over to me - put down his guitar and walked straight through that bar like I was the married to anyone when I'm only one there and said "A woman like you gotta have a man somewhere in this crowd. Why dont'cha point him out to me only seventeen, and as far as so I can let him know ya just found somebody new." Now, I like men to be a little forceful, but I'll tell you, this kids go, I'm not in any hurry was something else.

It wasn't til later I figured out Billy was kind of blown up to go wreck my figure just to with words. He thought he was some kind of poet. See, he wrote all the lyrics for the band. But that toughness was just have some brat puking all over like the shell of a turtle because if you knew him like I did, you'd get to see that quivering stuff like jelly inside that was my shoulder. so much smaller and softer than what was on the outside. I just out. Like when you see what a turtle^ like, really, inside, you can Then walked the thing was, let's see if I can explain this. See understand what it needs a shell for. But funny Billy, like He was crazy all right, that Billy. I never seen a man could deep down, I guess he wanted something what my burn and laugh so loud at once, or be so tough but call his parents had, a bunch of kids, a big old farmhouse, kind of a woman "mama". I never seen a man could see sick humour permanent home. So pretty soon he was pestering me to get to this line from - "I have in everything. I guess it was all part of his shell, if he couldn't married. He used sing a song wanna make himself laugh, I think he would've cried all the time. a dozen children mama and I want em all to look just like me."

What a voice though. I'll never forget it. He was some But right from the start I said,"No way I'm getting married singer. That voice was low and rich, filled with dirty thoughts to anyone when I'm only seventeen, and as far as kids go, I'm even when he was singing the most straight-forward type song, not in any hurry to go wreck my figure just to have some brat He talked like he was always writing the words for a rock and puking all over my shoulder." See, I had a lot of kids in my roll song - dirty and rhythmic and low and leaving off a lot of family, and ever since I was seven years old I was changing words you're supposed to have. them, and burping them and giving them their bottles. I had His hands on the guitar were kind of small for a guy's, enough of that for awhile and I wanted to do some other almost delicate. But the way he handled that guitar, you'd stuff—go to New York City, go anywhere, see the world all think he was about seven feet tall. His eyebrows would come over, and Billy, he just wanted to stay in that hick town all down low over his eyes when he wasn't singing, just playing, his life. He hated cities so bad. and he'd seem like he was somewhere else where you couldn't So it was kinda funny, you know, like leaving home to get all stuff living in that run-down store, and go. See, it was all this emotion I felt behind his voice, I saw it in away from that and Billy always wailing rock roll or banging that old piano his hands too, that made me want to love him. I wanted to and on love a man who'd be happy for love, and that Billy looked like but wanting really to get married and settle down. I just kept he'd been without it for a long, long time. saying,"You know I'm not the motherly type." like But I'm getting ahead of myself here. I meant to explain sort But man, I loved loving him. He made me feel the sexiest in the whole world. Sometimes girlfriends of how I ended up living there in the store when I was only woman my seventeen. tell me about how some man told them they were fat, or See, my mother called him a lousy good-for-nothing kid always pointed out some flaw in their figure, you know, like from the wrong side of the tracks, you know, besides thinking continued on page 40 Wavelength 15 A Student Guide to University Governance

by Monica Hileman

"An hour on the subway in, and an University of Massachusetts at Boston as especially for student groups looking to hour on the subway out; four courses "the major representative body," can be fund their activities. RSO's receive 10.8 every semester, and a couple of times a very important organization. percent of the budget. There are sixty ac- five. I worked part-time all the way tive RSO's on campus this year, ranging through one job. I worked thirty hours a Other governance bodies on which from a Marxist Study Group to the week. To study, have some time to spend students serve are the senates of each Society for the Advancement of

with my wife — / didn 't have time to go college and the Board of Trustees which Management. Most groups are social digging around for what was happening has one voting student member from clubs formed around either an academic

on campus. But if things were more U Mass/Boston. discipline or a sport.

visible, more accessible, well, then I The SAC is best known for its beer Theoretically, any group that meets

might have been more inclined to do blasts, its film series, and its funding of RSO requirements, at least 12 student

something." - UMass student, Class of other student organizations on campus. members and a constitution outlining the

'80 When you get your tuition bill each group's purpose, structure and

semester, the $18 Activity Fee goes into procedures, is eligible for funds, a

the Student Activities Trust Fund. The telephone, and a room - if space is There are two views usually expressed twenty-four students on the SAC serve available - as well as access to the INFO regarding the lack of student par- on 4 committees: Media and Center, and campus media ad- ticipation in university activities and Publications, Cultural Events, Com- vertisements. governance bodies. One is apathy - munity Action, and Recognized Student However, there are cases where students do not care. The other view ex- Organizations. They decide how your groups meeting the requirements presses the "Unique UMass Experience," RSO money gets spent. Based on a projected are turned down. The reasons given for generally described in terms of head count, the fiscal year 1980 (FY80) not granting RSO status are: lack of alienation, lack of continuity, and con- budget is $259,533. That sounds space on campus, lack of funds, the fusion. SAC and like a lot of money to play with, but af- opinion of SAC members that the new There are many reasons students do ter Administration (24 percent) and group would only duplicate a function not become involved with organizations Media and Publications (26.5 percent) already served by an existing RSO. With supposedly representing their in- are taken care of, that figure is cut in the members of the SAC in the position terests: lack of time, lack of in- half. to decide which eligible groups get fun- formation about the organizations, and a Although the SAC is not a policy- ding, whether or not priority should be feeling that either student input is making organization, its control over the given to active issue-oriented groups ignored or the organizations are already SATF money makes it very important, arises. Critics of the SAC's practice of controlled by those who serve in them. This month the annual Student Ac- tivity Committee/Student Trustee election is being held on February 27, 28, and 29. Although the SAC is the most visible student group on campus, the election results from last year show that of the 7,925 students eligible to vote, only 1,384, or 17.5 percent, voted. The University Assembly also had a problem with student participation: there were not enough students interested in serving on the assembly to warrant an election. The

Assembly is the "University-wide governance body" made up of 40 percent students, 60 percent faculty, with staff receiving three voting slots. The Assem- bly, described in the Constitution of the One of the SAC-sponsored events. continued on page 34 Wavelength 16 is handing out money to groups that do lit- Boston Latin High School. When asked The University Assembly a tle more than throw parties feel that the about the Ticket platform, several people unicameral body that represents students money could be better spent on on the campus at the time said they and faculty. It has the power to "review organizing activities that reflect the in- mainly remember the racist tone of the and consult" on matters relating to ad- terests of the student body as a whole. campaign. The next year, the United missions, the goal of the university, and Slate was formed in response. This year, a university policies in general, according new party called the Progressive Student to the Constitution of the University of As with RSO funding, the SAC Alliance will also be running candidated Massachusetts at Boston. According to a Cultural Events Committee expenditures for Sudent Trustee and SAC positions. student long involved with governance are also debated when group priorities are Although the SAC elections receive on campus, the Assembly is a useful tool involved. The largest chunk of Cultural the most coverage, the SAC is not in- in the hands of the chancellor. If the Events money, $9,000, is spent on beer volved with university policy-making. Its Assembly's position coincides with the blasts. The next three biggest items are power comes from the money it controls chancellor's, use its Film Series, The Lecture Series and the then he can recom- and the access its members have to the mendations to support his case before Ticket Series. A frequent complaint administration and the media. the Trustees, but if the Assembly among students is lack of diversity in the disagrees, its recommendations are easily types of social events and films. A SAC The University ignored. Or, as former student member responded to this by saying, Assembly one mem- "That has to do with the people involved ber of the Assembly quipped, "It was like playing croquet with the Queen from in organizing the events. If you had more 1) Faculty and students may be Alice in Wonderland." diversity among the students serving on organized into governing bodies, such as A few years ago College 1 and College the SAC, there would be more diversity senates and assemblies, departments, 2 were two separate colleges, today they in the things they organize." Cultural schools and colleges. The Constitution of are two separate buildings. The idea to Events account for 16.2 percent of this the major governing bodies must be ap- merge the two colleges was not supported year's budget. proved by the Board of Trustees. by the Assembly but the decision was The largest portion of the budget is 2) When appropriate, governing made anyway. At the time there was allocated to Media and Publications. This bodies shall have the privilege or recom- much out-cry from students and faculty money goes to run the Mass Media mending policies and procedures af- concerning the unresponsiveness of the ($13,200 for FY80), the Point Press fecting the campus and the University as administration. People serving on the ($26,050), and WUMB ($28,356). a whole, including among other matters, Assembly today attribute that unrespon- Although the Point Press, a student run academic matters of faculty status and siveness to former Chancellor Golino. press and composition shop, and the radio student affairs. Also when appropriate, More recently, when the Assembly station offer excellent on-the-job training governing bodies will have the privilege recommended that the 12:30 free period opportunities, they seem to by unusually of contributing to long-range planning, remain unchanged, the acting Vice Chan- large operations to be financed from the the preparation of the annual budget cellor of Academic Affairs, Robert Student Activities Fund. Both the Press request and the allocation of available Steamer changed the free period to 2:30 andWUMB are trying to become more resources. anyway. This was after the students had self-reliant; the Press is trying to generate voted for the 12:30 free period in a bin- more revenue but needs a director, and Doc. T73-098, The Board of Trustees ding referendum. Apparently only the WUMB is working towards getting a Statement on University Governance recommendations of the Assembly were FCC license that would allow them to broadcast off campus. Most students do not know the SAC has a Community Action Program. Tutorial programs for South Boston's Neighborhood House, Roxbury's Boys Club and Columbia Point residents, as well as neighborhood projects sponsored by the Asian American Society and the Student Veterans Union comprise 6.8 percent of this year's budget.

Historically, many of the people at- tracted to the SAC come from groups on campus who have had to rely on the SAC for funding. At each election the issue of special interests is raised. During the 1977 elections a new organization called the Ticket claimed that the SAC was dominated by radicals and minorities who did not truly represent the UMass student body. The members of the Ticket were for the most part, members of the Irish

Historical Society, a group formed in the spring of 1976 by recent graduates from The SAC in action Wavelength 17 against the gray distance, and yearns to be devoured by motion-starved creatures in hot pursuit of fleeting horizons. They

swallow one mile and taste the Road as it winds down the sweet Florida coast on a

steamy night, or pushes through the bit- terness of the Bronx, or burns across the Nightflight void of the Plains with a senseless urgen- cy only to be consumed by the mountains and then the sea. Ace and Conway sink back into the bucket seats and feel their hairlines recede into the plush headliner and out by Stephen G. Cain the fastback. They suck down the cool beer, afterburner for their parched throats, and stretch their legs past the engine, through the wheelwells, and Ace Bass bounces out to the pumps. way's mental structure and he moves down onto the road. The Fish eases the Wham, bam, thank you mam. Another 5 with a muscular musicality as he twists speedometer past 90 and the steady dollars of Sunoco's finest sent to the and spins on his iron-mesh platform. vibration whips through the taut cords front to ward off those evil miles. Ace Sometimes he shuts his eyes and picks in of their bodies and explodes their skulls shuts the pump and jams the nozzle in time with the changing tone of the into brilliant streamers flaring out past one easy motion, turns, and smiles, for machine as the pile reaches the proper the aura of the Fish's blue flame. These there, before his very eyes, is his Fish. If height. The rhythm is steady and an boys are cookin.' the Sunoco arrow were to spring from its unknown song streams through Con- Conway feels the ball-joint next to his neon bow the Fish would never fly way's mind. He hears screaming guitars right ankle separate and the front wheel again, but that's cool. Ace likes it right and feels the bass through his feet and come loose. The front end dives for the there where the dayglo sign beams fluor- begins to boogie up and down, kicking pavement, grinds for an agonizing eter- escent radiations onto the fresh wash, out his legs on the backspin and snapping nity, catches and flips the Fish airborne. wax, and polish and the Fish gleams in his fingers as he waits for the shingles to Conway turns and sees Ace's face distort smug, iridescent, blue beauty. "Ain*t it stack. No jazz freaks work this job; rock with terror, watches the sockets of Ace's purty," says Ace and he runs over and n'rollers please apply. eyes turn black, then red, as the Fish hugs the fender, being careful not to Ace records the pump outputs, locks returns to earth with a cataclysmic scratch the finish with his jacket zipper. up the station and fires up the Fish. He detonation and shrieks into a white-hot Inside the Fish is clean; no beer cans on purrs out onto 109, gooses the gas a bit, blaze.

the floor, no butts in the rear ashtrays. and heads into town, where he checks out Ace is confident in the Fish, though, Under the dash, attached to a vent lever, the locals and cops some beers. Ace drives and opens another beer, after chucking hangs a pine tree-shaped Car Freshener. to the factory parking lot, opens a beer, the empty into the wind. Conway shakes The mirror sprouts a hangman's noose; flip-top in the bag, thank you, rolls a off the snatch of nightmare, changes the no fuzzy dice or graduation tassels for joint, and waits for the second shift to get radio station, and says "Head through

this baby. Up front, under the hood, out. The whistle blows. Conway emerges town, Ace, see if anything's happening."

well . . . this is the kind of car that from the picking room, punches his time . Ace cools the Fish down to a should be driven slowly, through the cen- card and greets Ace. "Let's cruise." Ace reasonable speed, loops back through the ter of town, so the driver's delight can be pulls a hole-shot and clouts the lot with dormant suburbs and slips onto the main reflected back by the eyes of the innocent dust. drag into town. The Fish moves past the bystanders caught in the blue glow. But They roll through the night, smoking gas stations, dairy stores, pharmacies, in- the Fish can still spread its wings and soar dope, drinking beers, and harmonizing surance offices, and into the dark super- over the whitelines at a respectable clip. with the radio. "Electric woman waits for market lot with a sublime grace. Conway Ace searches for a non-greasy spot on me." They are no longer transistors on a searches the cluster of young bodies his sleeve and then wipes off any finger- circuit board being randomly activated by leaning against a liquor store wall and prints that remain. He backs off a few unseen economic impulses. They do not spots a friend who owes him money. yards, becomes absorbed in the Fish's change from red to green at the press of a "I'm gonna hang out here for awhile, glow for a moment, sighs "Ain't it purty," button. The Fish moves them through a Ace. How bout you?" and bounces back into the station. fluid of freedom. And this is what makes "I think I'll just cool it tonight, Con-

Across town, Conway picks shingles. it; this moment of rushing nowhere, no way. Later."

The asphalt slabs whip down the rollers, ass to kiss, no hassles, just the surface of "Hey, thanks for the buzz, man." slam into the stop, 160 pounds per the road disappearing beneath the The Fish maneuvers between the minute, and Conway siezes the bundle, gleaming blue hood and the bullshit people drinking in parked cars, ac- lifts, pivots, and drops the stack on the melting away into the vacant darkness. celerates through the changing lights and conveyor belt below which whisks the No destination but no matter. They are whips up the hill on out of town. Ace shingles out of the building and into the on the Road, the infinite asphalt animal checks the gas, pats the dash, and says industrial complex beyond. The pounding which pulsates across the continent, "Fish, you're looking damn purty. No red rhythm of the machine works into Con- thrusts its tire-scarred, tar burnt veins lights tonight, babe."

Wavelength 18 Preoccupations untitled

Look at the design of my life; If ever she leaves you, the exact shade of my lipstick you'd see yourself like an autumn leaf. and know Dying in perfect colour, that occasionally dry and carried by bitter winds,

everything falls into place; — a fatal dancer existing on a breeze, — a life given from without,

tomatoes bursting on the vine, never from within. the laundry hanging on the line Engulfed in a winter of your own creation. can make me lose my most major preoccupations. Allison Hurley

In winter I wander to different locations. Mentally my dishes never match. Maris Nichols

ens'© Z-l-80

to G.E.

Before the Fall cascading rain hangs frozen on willow's weeping branch, Sometimes on Mondays a soft yellow street light

walking when the night is frayed by tree's tentacles, starts to descend a spider's web illuminates in curtains of silence the velvet black night, and the wind echoes below hanging limbs of suspense

its lonliness a simonized Chevrolet beams, through the treetops white light bounces & bends

and the moon hovers in the sky off its crystal coat, like some fallen angel the rainbow night thoughts swell glows in eclectic might. and tears stain the dew swept grass. A.EM. John G. Hall Wavelength 19 Only five blacks had graduated from Mass Art before 1972. Increased concern for civil rights and Affirmative Action in A Space the late sixties and early seventies brought more blacks to Mass Art. In May 1969, three of the first black students at Mass Art formed the Black Artists Union. Now and then, the BAU feels that the need for a support

system of this kind is doubled because of what they feel is a for low-key, but strong sense of racism existing in the Mass Art administration. The Union feels that many of the Ad- ministrators do not understand the needs of minority studen-

ts.

Black Chairperson Greg Walker feels the lack of sympathy or understanding toward minority students at Mass Art occurs both

in and out of the classroom. He explains that there is no full- time director of Minority Affairs, and that representation in Artists the administration is limited. Sharon Dunn, part-time director by Karen Kelly of Minority Affairs, is an instructor who divides her time between classes, her family, and the union. Greg and the other "It was during the fifties and sixties that dramatic events members feel Sharon is doing a good job, but that a full-time began to take place that helped to diminish this damaging person is desperately needed to give adequate representation to legacy of negativism. African colonies began to emerge as in- minority students. dependent states, civil rights activists began to win significant There are only four minority instructors at Mass Art: one victories, and the hard-core of pride that we had managed to full-time, and three part-time instructors. Because of this, Greg hang onto began to reassert itself positively. We are, once again, Black and proud. We began to reaffirm the proud heritage of proud people as we devoured all of the material we could digest on the culturally rich and beautiful motherland, Africa. We studied every page written on Her; we traveled to Her shores to caress Her; and in the process we renewed our love affair with Her. Black became, once again, Beautiful. And our positive assertion of this fact ushered in a new social order in this country. We forced the doors of education to open wider, and broadened the avenues ofemployment. Tall and erect, we entered.

from The Image Makers A minority recruitment bulletin of Massachusetts College of Art

These ideas serve as inspiration for the Black Artists Union (BAU), a Mass College of Art student organization located at feels many black students have a hard time in studio classes. 26 Overland Street. Because different backgrounds and lifestyles affect each per-

Since the minority student drop-out rate at Mass Art is son differently, the black from a low-income family, or the different relatively high, the BAU sees its primary purpose as a system black from Africa or the Carribean may have a con- of support, encouraging black and other minority students to cept of color and form, which sometimes does not meet the their remain in school. Recognizing that support is an important standards of the white faculty members who have own part of being a working artist, the BAU offers beginning concepts of form and color. black artists a place to meet and to discuss their school and Greg explains the cultural barrier between foreign students work related problems with other students of similar and white faculty members: "These students see colors dif- backgrounds and concerns. ferently than a white American student or teacher sees the use of color. An African student may use, say purple and yellow and other harsh, bold colors and this may meet with discouraging remarks from an instructor. Whereas white American students may be more prone to use paler, more

subdued colors. Here there is a lack of understanding of the minority's background." Nevertheless, Greg says, the Union and minority students at the school are taken very seriously as artists because they have many connections to the black community outside the school. Besides giving artistic support to Mass Art's minority students, the Union offers a counseling program. The

programs at Mass Art are strenuous. He says that there is a definite need to give support to the minority student who may not have received previous formal training in the arts, Wavelength 20 and who are from low-income families and do not have adequate training for succeeding in art school. The BAU offers a family-like atmosphere, a constant flow of ideas, and help for Student the students who need it. They also hold tutorial sessions for their members in conjunction with the state and with AID. Although only 17 percent of the students are minority, Profiles nearly 95 per cent of them belong to the BAU. Greg says that the Union does not support the move to Charlestown, a move still in the discussion stage. They disap- Greg Walker prove of the move mainly because of safety factors. Students Greg first received formal art training when he was in work in their studios very late in the evening, sometimes past high school. At that time he was involved in two art 1 1:30. Since Mass Art is a commuter school, it would be both programs, one of them in conjunction with Mass Art, the difficult and dangerous for students to make their way home other in conjunction with AID. Right after graduating from from that area. While Mass Art's present location may not be high school, Greg was accepted and attended Mass Art. ideal, BAU members feel the area is highly student-oriented Right he is a second semester sophomore, studying in- an atmosphere to working and to learning. now dustrial design. It is possible that the Union would support the merger bet- "As an industrial designer you must have artistic ween UMass and Mass Art because it may mean that knowledge as well as technical knowledge. Everything you minority student enrollmet would increase. "And of course, touch, except architecture and fashion, has been designed the facilities couldn't get any worse," Greg adds, because the by an industrial designer, from a box to a microphone." school was built for 500 students and now holds 1 100. Greg says that each department takes care of its own If the merger does occur, though, many students feel that students. Because the industrial design department is so they may lose their identity. There is a big difference between small, students know their teachers well. Greg feels that the the Black artist, artists in general, and other students, the one to one relationships have been very helpful to him, both Union asserts. A great deal of misunderstanding and stigma is as an artist and a Black. attached to being an artist, particularly if you are black. Greg He feels that the Black artist has a very special role. feels that the union operates differently from most other "Being an artist is the same as being a political activist. We minority organizations. All members have one thing in com- shouldn't be painting apples and oranges because it's been mon: they are artists. "All artists are poets," Greg says and done a thousand times before. We should be dealing with their talents need to be nurtured very differently from other subject matter that makes the viewer aware realize types of students. and their background heritage and art." The BAU encourages their members to show their work as "I have a responsibility to myself to do well, and a often as possible, and the Union holds shows and exhibits as responsibility to put out subject matter in my work that often as they can afford. The following art works and artists suggests things that the viewer will learn from. Art is a good are all members of the BAU. Each one is a talented individual, way to get into peoples minds, through colors and forms. If actively involved in the Boston art world both in and out of it is ugly or beautiful, they will learn from it, they can look school, even though all three realize what they are up against at it and get the point." in terms of finding jobs and gaining good positions in the work world.

Wavelength 21 Robyn Johnson

Robyn is a fashion design major at Mass Art, with a great interest in the fine arts. She first received training in design and construction at the Occupational Resource Cen- ter, where she studied tailoring extensively. She then went to B.U. for a year to study Art Education. Beantown Productions awarded her the most outstanding designer for 1978, and she has appeared on Channel 4's Mzizi/Roots. She also free lance designs for individuals, and her work has gained a fine reputation in the Boston area. Although she designs everyday wear and sportswear, she most enjoys working with theatrical costumes, because it enables her to express herself in a way which regular, ready- to-wear clothing does not permit. Since the theatrical department at Mass Art is quite small, Robyn's opportunities for designing costumes are limited at present. When asked about her chances, as a black woman, of getting into the fashion design business in New York, she said "I know what I'm up against, being both Black and a

woman, and I know it will be tough, but I try not to think in that way. It may be an advantage that I am a woman, in fact. There's a first time for everything and maybe something will come my way. I always try to keep a positive attitude about it all. I try not to look at things on that level, even though I know the problem exists." Robyn says that there are more women than men in the BAU, but that more men are actively involved in politics of the Union. She hopes she can serve as an example to other minority women in the Union, who may also become involved. The Union, she says, keeps her strong and gives her the support she needs.

and begin her career in another city. "I've done all I can do in Boston," she says. "It's time to move on." Anthony Williams

Anthony, a sophomore at Mass Art, first received formal training in high school. Access to photography and film equipment at his high school spurred his interest in the world of photography. Involvement with a Mass Art photo program when he was in high school led him to attend the College after graduation.

Anthony is the first Black male to enter the photography department at Mass Art, which makes him a representative and pathmaker for other minorities interested in this field.

Right now his main interest is in documentary photography. The difference between photo journalism and documentary photography, he says, is that in photo journalism the picture is used in a series, or as part of a written story. In documentary photography, the artist tries to convey a full story through just one photograph. Anthony uses a Canon TX, a camera with no automatic devices. He says that some people consider a completely manual camera primitive, but he feels it allows him to be more creative. He feels, artists may rely too heavily on the automatics. He calls some of the newer more "advanced" cameras "California cameras" because the light meters have a tendency to blow out in temperatures below 20. Anthony has been fortunate enough to develop a clientel of his ov/n outside of Mass Art, and has done many por- traits of people, and some catalogue work. After attending Mass Art he hopes to build his career as a professional photographer. Wavelength 22 Campus Controversy

As a response to recent events in Afghanistan and Iran President Car- ter has proposed a return to draft registration. Is this proposaljustified ?

Petrie Chris Alberto No Yes Steven

No. At this time, officials in Washington are attempting Yes, I believe President Carter's proposal for reinstatement to create a war atmosphere. There has been much of draft registration is appropriate at this time. It is a bit fool- discussion of American military responses to the current ish to allow the Soviet Union to wage an imperialist war situation in Afghanistan, and President Carter has proposed without at least making some noise about it, and Carter's the creation of a rapid deployment force. In addition to noisy call for draft registration, the grain embargo, and the these hawk-like maneuvers, Carter has proposed a return to Olympics boycott are the sort of furor needed. These sorts of the draft registration. This blatant overreaction to the actions are just about as far as the US can go toward showing current international situation is, in large part, Carter's cold the Soviet leadership that aggression has consequences. It is war election strategy. For this reason, Carter's proposal to doubtful that draft registration will result in anyone actually renew draft registration should be opposed. being drafted. There was no US intervention in The current international scene cannot be understood Czechoslovakia in 1968, none in Hungary in 1956, and, elec- unless placed in the context of Carter's "helter-skelter" tion year saber-rattling notwithstanding, there will be none in foreign policy. Under the Carter administration, our Afghanistan in 1980. Carter's announcement that the US will economy has remained heavily over-dependent on foreign fight to keep the Russians out of the Persian Gulf is nothing oil, which leads to such policies as Carter's support of the new - it has always been US defense strategy to forbid the deposed Shah of Iran. Upon close inspection, we find that Soviet Union control of most of the non-communist world's much of the president's foreign policy has totally disregar- oil; the Russians know this and are unlikely to risk open war ded democratic ideals and has, instead, yielded to the special with the US. But for this deterrent to work, economic sanc- interests of huge multi-national corporations instead. As a tions and the like are not enough; response in kind is cold war chill continues to fall over Washington, we should necessary. The Russians must know that the US is still ask ourselves whether another generation of the young is seriously involved in international politics, even to the point being asked to die for the failures of the old. of national mobilization, if necessary.

Carter's proposal to re-institute draft registration is but This is why draft registration is a good idea. It has been one more overreaction and inconsistency in his foreign convenient in the years since the American involvement in policy. Throughout his term in office the President has Vietnam to forget that nations, especially prominent nations, "held high the banner of human rights" while supporting fight wars. Defense may well be the only proper reason for the repressive regimes of Somosa in Nicaragua, Park in the existence of states. Be that latter conjecture as it may, the

Korea and particularly the Shah of Iran. Some of us still US is certainly a prominent nation, and has been more or less remember the contrived crisis in Cuba. According to Carter at war with the Soviet Union since the end of World War II - the minimal troops in Cuba presented "the greatest threat to — A state of "cold war,"which is actually a state of "hot di- world peace since the Cuban Missile Crisis!" Now, with the plomacy". Carter's draft registration proposal is hence more presidential election growing closer, he says the same of an act of diplomacy than an act of war. Afghanistan. Even a cold war, however, involves sacrifice. Midwestern Under present conditions, renewal of the draft is an un- farmers may sacrifice grain sales, the Olympic athletes may necessary deprivation of civil liberty and individual sacrifice four or more years of training, and young men and freedom. It takes us from our families, our homes, our oc- women may suffer potential, if unlikely, lack of freedom. Car- cupations, and educations. Carter's reinstatement of draft ter is certainly staging much election year theater around the registration is the first step toward the kind of situation that Afghanistan issue, but that is to be expected. What is really prevailed in the sixties; when objectors to this country's important is that the American response be unified and policies and priorities had no choice but to obey or be jailed. decisive.

Wavelength 23 Student Anx/ety Syndrome

you are not alone. Chances are, if you By Donna Neal are having trouble understanding the lec-

tures, others are too. But everyone is Leafing through any college catalogue afraid to verbalize their confusion, afraid you are able to extract from it all the they might appear stupid. joys of the college experience. Pictures of Part of the problem in the classroom is students in serious study, the last dance the feeling of some that we should be the at the Senior Prom, and the graduation "poor man's Harvard." Along with this is processional all lasting, pleasant form the question of how much we should memories. But there is another side to concentrate on basic skills. Dr. Robinson the student experience, and although not says, "We say we want a university with as pleasant, it is just as memorable. It is high academic quality, but my feeling is the trauma brought about by the that this is very inappropriate for this Student Anxiety Syndrome. campus. We are not the Harvard of Col- Everyone has a certain amount of umbia Point. This is not that place. We stress in their lives, but students often 1 need teaching excellence and educational suffer more, due to the increased deman- * excellence, teaching quality and educa- ds placed upon them in achieving their | tional quality. If we could do that, then academic goals. The typical UMass/ I we would be a unique institution. We Boston student is usually beyond the want to measure faculty by the number average age bracket for a college student. Counseling Director John Robinson of publications. That's nice, but what are Many are married, with family responsi- they doing in the classroom? How well bilities, and are working part or full-time. "There is also a more immediate can they meet the needs of the student in And a substantial number are the first in pressure for the student who has been there? Students who come here don't their families to attend college. Adding out of school for a number of years and come here to go into research when they these factors to the "normal" stress of has a family of his own. He often feels leave, they come to learn a skill so they college life may overburden some to the torn between work, and the day to day can survive in their field. We should con- point where they experience a full progress that he sees in that situation, centrate on teaching skills rather than fledged anxiety state. and school, where progress is not always academic, with educational quality and A student in an anxiety state may not apparent until some future point. He teaching quality. This is very important always know what is happening to him. may also feel guilty about taking time to students, especially here, with our par- He just have a vague feeling that away from spouse and children. Tied in- may ticular student population. These factors something bad is going to happen, even to these feelings are economic pressures, relate to the immediate anxiety in the if there is evidence not overt, but still taking a toll on the no tangible to sup- classroom." port that feeling. According to Dr. John family, especially when the student is Lack of basic skills can put a lot of Robinson, director of Counseling at working and has to cut his hours or find pressure on students and can cause a lot UMass/Boston, the abstract feeling can another job in order to fit in his course of frustration for professors. This is a manifest itself in a variety of physical schedule." reflection of the 1960's and early 1970's forms, the most common being nervous- Academic anxiety pressure most fre- educational move away from basic skills ness, trembling, sleeplessness, and the in- quently affects a student's performance. to applicable skills. Many students have ability to relax. nervousness accom- slow down or Its forms range from gone through twelve years of school but Dr. Robinson further states that class participation, to the frus- panying have not been adequately trained in the student anxiety may be broken down in- tration that can occur while writing a basic skills necessary to become success- to four primary units: family pressure, term paper, to fear of not doing well on ful in college. Due to vocal student academic pressure, peer pressure, and in- an exam. movements of the past two decades, col- ternal pressure. "The irrationality of the Even sitting in a classroom can bring leges have bent to pressure and have expectations by the family can be subtle tremendous anxiety, particularly during gone either to inflated grades, or to or overt. The family telling the student the first few weeks of a semester. A pass/fail. This trend is affecting many that a lot is depending upon him, or that student is often unsure of what is expec- former students now in the marketplace 'we have saved for years to give this professor is lecturing to you ted of him. The who can't write a decent resume or con- opportunity', is an example overt level, of the class, explaining things on one duct an interview because they lack the pressure. A more subtle pressure would and the student is understanding on an- necessary basic language skills. The be the family telling the student that level. student may want to ask other The swing back to core requirements along they know that he will do well, or asking a question, but doesn't for fear he will with increased basic skills workshops can him what kind of job he expects to get appear stupid. continued on page 38 when he graduates. You may be feeling this yourself, but

Wavelength 24 shape. The Napoleon is square, whereas the command. Ellen comes up behind

the Bismark is oval. Also, a Napoleon me. She nudges my arm and tilts her costs more. head towards the door. Try again. This Name two leaders of the British time the legs respond. Walk forward. A Parliament during the 19th century and huge pile of blue books on the professors discuss the major accomplishment of desk, place mine on top. Finally through each. Let's see. London. Politics. 19th the door and out of the classroom. "Hey Sue, what do you think about Saved century. Who was famous then? I got it! the exam? It wasn't too bad, huh? I One of the leaders of the British think I finally passed one of his tests." Parliament during the 19th century was "Sure, Ellen, a real breeze. If I can just Holmes. During his years Mr. Sherlock ." make it to the ladies room . . as a key political figure, he was involved "Come on, Sue. We're going to the in many policy disputes with a member pub. You could use a drink." of the opposition party; one Professor by the "Do they have pastries there?" Moriarty. But basically, his term of office "Now Sue, lay it on the line. I know was uneventful, and eventually he somethin's been bothering you lately. retired to his country estate of Basker- What's the matter? You're a good ville to raise hunting hounds. He was student." replaced by a Dr. Watson (forgot his first name) also a famous member of the "I woke up this morning and my fish Glass Royal Alchemy of Science and the were frozen in their tank. And the damn discoverer of the theory of revolution. landlord wants to raise the rent for heat. Question #7, #4, #15, #8. Essay A, On top of which my three minute egg

essay B, essay C. It's all mixed up and I took ten minutes and exploded on the

can't remember again. There's only fif- stove, and the disco duck freak upstairs

teen minutes left. was blasting away until early morning.

As I put the pages of exam questions All that quacking kept me up and I had

inside the blue book, I feel sick. People to clean up the hall this morning, it was gather their belongings and head for the all feathers. Do you think I'm going

door. I want to leave but the legs won't crazy?"

off it, Sue. by Drohan O'Neill work. I sit paralyzed, the mind rejects "Come You're one of the continued on oaee 37

There were fifty-five minutes left to complete the history exam. The long hours of preparation and my confidence were pushed aside. There was sweat on my forehead and my stomach churned as

I read the exam questions. The names and dates I thought I knew so well mixed together in my mind. The now in- comprehensible questions remained unanswered as I wiped my brow and watched the time slip away.

Air, I need air. Oh God, why did they build this classroom without windows? I must get a grip on things. I try to write something, anything, but the pen keeps slipping from between the trembling fingers of my right hand. My heart races faster as I turn the exam to another page. Question #5. Compare and contrast Bismark and Napoleon. Napoleon and Bismark? Bismark and Napoleon? In common? Contrast? Think, Susan, think.

You should know. After all, you're a history major. Napoleon. The name sounds familiar. I've heard it recently, but where? Oh yeah, Saturday night at the Cafe. The common bond between

Napoleon and Bismark is that they are both world famous french pastries. The

main contrast between the two is in

Wavelength 25 Morning on Creation Day

Morning on creation day Your face to meet the virgin frost within the morn

And flowers fix their eyes amidst the thorns as if to kiss the sun Their colors rainbow painted against the clear blue sky in gravity

A tapestry I cry! Morning on creation day

Morning on creation day The blood within my veins could not contain the ecstasy

of the surge that I feel

Knowing to understand how much my world is real Spirit of the rock, the tree, the mountain, sea, and endless breeze, heal the broken wings of the dove that she may rise and soar high as the eagle, way upon the wind, proclaiming as she goes o Morning on creation day Morning on creation day Oh, for a thousand ages, beyond the stretch of eternity Forever, morning on creation day! For until the blazing sunset scarlet hue, holds true

within it's walls the birth of nite

rich within it's ebony velvet, dread to flash the opposing C0 light the dawn's May it always heal the wounds and with unbounded love where passions roll the soul to reach the hands to clasp bo again the hold within the frame That man in humble never shame, bow down again, once more to reclaim their souls from the burning flame Again, within the name to rejoice To live the morning on creation day

Morning on creation day May we all hear the sounds from the choirs rising high above the steeples The bands again, and again, swelling, letting in the melody songs, they've never heard before That now will never be forgotten Some one toll the bell •3 Again they tell it is the Morning on creation day

(Pause)

feeling the life forms move to rest within the day, feel the lost souls coming together again, together again, out up from the rain, away from the pain, into the sweetness of the morning on creation day Nothing now to stop the birth to live within!!!

(dedicated to all who have heard the music)

Wavelength 26 Paradox

The Territory . . . the nervous silence of sleeping Tragedy. The light comes late, The light comes to spite

It all.

II. Waiting for the ritual to cause itself,

While I'm still trying to find the sentence that does justice to the bomb garden, wisely planted laconicly lush choicely provoking impervious to mysteries That will evolve into trivia.

III. So, I'm lingering in the nakedness That supports the contentions of grinning trees Everywhere. The light comes with expectation.

Out The Other Door

Life after the first zero : superimposing an Occupation in space, Inspiring the run & jump, While the breeze through the service entrance

Needs some mouthwash . . . later . . . Roaming the toll-booths in a kind of euphoric Oneness with sensory paroxyms — Finally the last zero. No more denying everything, No more waiting for the tide That drowns the hope behind Uninsured eyes. No more sane wet experiences or nostalgia. Just the Heaven Room, with raquet ball Jello & pizza orgies and fantastic special effects.

Wavelength 27 Tensions continued from page 10 report released by the group of professors things that other cultures have to offer," states that there are no tenured black Dodson says. "You tend to develop a faculty in the College of Professional respect for others by learning about them. denying black professors tenure in the Studies, and only one tenured black I think students here are pretty liberal." College of Arts and Sciences was also professor in the College of Public and Dodson does not always see that same criticized by UMass/Boston's Affirmative Community Service. The report also em- tolerance within the Student Activities

Action Officer. According to Johnson, 80 phasizes, as did nearly all of the black ad- Committee. percent of the black professors up for ministrators and faculty members in- tenure at CAS have been rejected at the terviewed by Wavelength, that four of Student Government dean's level. the last five blacks to apply for tenure at Currently, two black professors in CAS CAS have been rejected by Dean Michael The most important single organ of are struggling to reverse rejected tenure Riccards. UMass/Boston's student government is bids. Last year, Riccards turned down "It is our intention to put the univer- the Student Activities Committe, which both tenure bids from the only two sity on notice that we view this situation debates and decides how over $250,000 blacks to apply: Marcia Lloyd of the as intolerable," the caucus report in student money will be spent. The com-

Art Department, and Jefferson Cleveland states,"and that we will have no other mittee is composed of two political par- of the Music Department. recourse than to pursue these issues with ties: the Ticket, and the Slate. The

Despite his image of UMass/Boston's agencies external to the university, such Slate is comprised mainly of minority past, despite his current battles that as the Equal Opportunities Commission, students, the Ticket is very nearly 100 usually end, at best, in partial victories, and the Massachusetts Commission per cent white.

Johnson still sees some reason to be op- Against Discrimination." "There is racial tension on the SAC," timistic. At this time, he sees Chancellor "I think it is important for this univer- says James Canada, the only black mem- Robert Corrigan as a man genuinely com- sity to do more than pay lip service to the ber on the Ticket. "You can see it in mitted to Affirmative Action but idea of hiring more minorities," adds their voting and you can see it in their questions whether his leadership can James Blackwell. "It is absurd to say that finger pointing. You can see it when the bring about positive change at this we can't find minorities who are equally two groups come together over funding. university. Johnson believes that the jury as competent, if not more competent, There are strong racial biases, and is still out on Corrigan and that than white faculty members on this cam- anyone who says there isn't, 111 stand up, UMass/Boston's chief administrator will pus." look them in the eye, and call them a have to do more than state his com- Despite the recent flurry of charges, liar." mittment to Affirmative Action if things UMass students, both black and white, Several black members of the com- are to change. are continuing with education as usual. mittee angrily walked out of the last

"If I thought the man was a racist, or The severe racial tensions that exist only meeting of the fall semester after a heated was standing in the way ofAffirmativeAc- a few miles from the Harbor Campus dispute with a number of white com- tion, I would hint to that. But I'm saying have not significantly affected the univer- mittee members. According to several up front that I think his committment is sity's everyday academic setting. In the SAC sources, the incident was a real," says Johnson. "That's probably the cafeterias, the lounges, and the manifestation of the racial tension that reason I'm still here. If I'm wrong on classrooms, tension between whites and exists between many members of the that, then I don't believe in wasting my blacks is rarely visible. committee. time." A number of those interviewed praised The meeting became tense when a Whatever future success the general student body for their proposal to fund an event celebrating the UMass/Boston is to have in hiring and maturity and openmindedness. The African holiday of Kwanza was keeping black minority professors, or in overriding concern of students seems to vehemently opposed by a group of white attracting and keeping rnpre minority be to work for a good and productive committee members. Opposition to the students is currently as cloudy as John- education, and their liberal attitudes proposal was based on the argument that son's own future. He presents himself as towards each other are a sign, however black groups on campus had already an assertive and dedicated man, but, like small or large, that not all the levels of received more than their fair share of the Sisyphus, he may have pushed one too UMass/Boston are fraught with division SAC budget. many boulders up to the mountain top and tension. Oddly, the proposal had passed first only to have it roll back down again. "Whatever the problems that may exist reading the week before with little "I'm not a fool," Johnson says when between students, one of the positive discussion. Laura Montgomery, chair- Registered Student looking forward to the future. "I'm not a signs is the fact that Imani, Ujima (two person of the SAC's martyr. I'm not going to lay myself out black groups) and the Irish Historical Organization Subcommittee, theorizes for a university to stomp on and kick my Society were trying to come together, as that Ticket members may have allowed ass. I toy with the possibility of, at some part of the Covenant for Racial Justice, it to go through in order to assure point, perhaps soon, breaking away from to create a peaceful and cooperative en- passage of proposals made by the ski this kind of thing and practicing law and vironment," Professor Blackwell says. club and the chess club, which were also approaching the problem from that Earnest Dodson, chairperson of the on the agenda. "Second reading was point." Student Activity Committee, also em- waived for the ski club and chess club, Kwanza was put on the agenda Black Caucus phasizes his belief that the general however, student population has no deep problems for a second reading. According to UMass/Boston's Black with race. "When you come to a univer- Tempers began to flare when Marty Faculty Caucus, the university is guilty sity, you're supposed to learn and accept Nee, an influential Ticket member, and of institutionalized racism. A recent

Wavelength 28 "

the group's candidate for student trustee, based on anything substantial. I thought Blackwell continued from page 9 led what appeared to be a carefully or- it was a racist vote. During that time, that it is, especially in regards to the chestrated attempt to overturn the first when someone had first shot Daryll original mission of this university. This vote. Williams, and there was so much racial university was established as an urban Nee began the debate by insisting that tension in the city, I felt it would have university — part of the mission is to black groups had already received more been very constructive for the students, reach out to the urban population of than their fair share of the SAC budget. black and white, to come together. They metropolitan Boston. Another ticket member said that the obviously felt that wasn't important." My strong belief is this: once we make dispute was cultural, not racial, and the decision to have a kind of open ad- asked what the committee would say to In many ways the University of missions process, then it is incumbent the French club and the German club Massachusetts at Boston is like a upon the university to provide as many when they came in for money. microcosm of the city itself. Its students support services as it can, to give those Michael Thomas, who brought the come from all over the metropolitan area, students an equal chance at being suc- proposal, defended it, saying that the bringing with them the attitudes and cessful. If we don't do that, we're being celebration would promote racial har- values that are so deeply ingrained in the hypocrites ... it may very well be, we mony on campus. He argued that his cultures of Boston's various neigh- will have to institute programs in basic group deserved more funds than some borhoods and suburbs. It is the unique skills for some students. We may have to other groups since it was more active and blend of those attitudes and values that have some teachers who are more suc- sponsored more events. form the character of this urban univer- cessful at teaching basic skills programs. If they do, then the rewards for these "I came out and told everybody the teachers should be equal to teachers in other departments. Now, I think the reasons for my decisions. They weren't university obviously has to have academic standards, and we should racial reasons, and if they have racial never water down out educational feelings towards me, they think I hate programs under any circumstances. Any if time we water down the education to niggers, that's their problem. students, then I think the students ought to be insulted. They should scream holy Marty Nee murder. Wavelength: Any closing comments?

Blackwell: There is a growing feeling on Debate intensified, and discussion soon sity. The largest percentage of the this campus among the black faculty and angered both proponents and opponents students come from the nearby suburbs. staff caucus that this university is not of the measure. Rick Barrows, a black About 12 per cent are members of really prepared to deal with and to relate committee member, faced the group and minority groups. And about 35 per cent effectively with very competent black criticized some whites for voting on the are from the city itself; including those males at UMass/Boston. There may be basis of race rather than on the proposal's areas where severe racial tensions some subtle move to try getting rid of merits. sometimes flare into open violence. black males who are in high academic Finally, with the committee clearly That rarely happens at this university. administrative positions on this campus. divided along racial lines, a roll-call vote Whatever kind of racism we've all been Whether it is true or not, there is a was taken. All the minority members of raised with seems to give way to higher growing perception that this is the case. the committee voted for the measure; all priorities. But the usually peaceful but one of the white members present educational atmosphere here should not

voted against it. At that point, every blind us to the severe problems that lie black person in the room walked out, beneath the surface. The racial problems bringing the meeting to an abrupt end. of UMass/Boston tend to be subtle and, in James Canada, the only black member of recent years, they've been allowed to the Ticket, was the first one out of his fester because so few people have been seat. willing to look for them. 1 "I was called a racist for that vote,"

says Marty Nee, "but I did everything

above board. I wasn't trying to hide anything and I came out and told everybody the reasons for my decisions.

They weren't racial reasons, and if they

have racial feelings towards me, if they

think I hate niggers, that's their problem." Nee's comments were made in a tape- recorded Wavelength interview.

"There is racial tension on the SAC," says Rick Barrows. "The vote was not James Blackwell Wavelength 29 Reorg continued from page 3 their plan. One source was a questionnaire that had been distributed to the at a speed approaching the speed of light campus community. Students were not and with no consultation with of any the involved in the questionnaire. In ad- people involved. dition, an extensive LRPC report from Lana Brennen, director of Financial two years ago, when Mr. Broderick was Aid, comments, "If I could have had on the LRPC, was used and two outside some control over being moved, I would consultants were called upon. In the have stayed in Student Affairs, but it's previous LRPC report, he states, ad- the prerogative of the chancellor or any ministrative staff were consulted. That manager to reorganize his staff. I had no report, however, was rejected by former control over this." Chancellor Carlo Golino. The lack of consultation on both this The two outside consultants, one from the formulation move and of the report the University of Iowa and the other are major sore points at all levels of the from the University of Pennsylvania, adminstration. were sent information on the present On Consultation structure of the administration. The con- Mr. Tubbs and others have asked, sultations and recommendations took "Why didn't the Assembly sub- place by phone. Neither Safwat nor committee consult with the people in- Bronk could recall the consultants' volved with these changes before making names. Tonn would not relinquish this their recommendations?" information. dmerentT^where the lack of con-

The Assembly LRPC, acting on a During the process, the committee sultation has people most upset is in the request from the chancellor, formed a consulted with the chancellor and the moving of the Financial Aid Office. three person sub-committee on deputy chancellor, to inform them of Tubbs claims that he was not in- reorganization last fall. The members what they had done and to check for ob- formed of the move until it was in effect. were Professor Fuad Safwat, former jections. Corrigan denies this. "Tubbs was in- dean of CAS who acted as Chancellor Corrigan has stated, "It formed prior to the move, but did not chair; Professor Ray Bronk, chairperson wasn't necessary to consult with the have it in writing. We went rapidly, of the University Assembly; and people involved because the Assembly [Tubbs] feels that my intent was less

Professor Joan Tonn of the College of committee had a set of priorities and clear than I feel it was." Management and Professional Studies. they had documents from several years The report was submitted to Corrigan

Tonn is now the chancellor's Special past." just before Christmas. On January 14, Assistant on Reorganization, having Others disagree on the consultation Brennen was told by Corrigan that taken a leave of absence from her issue. Lana Brennen states, "If members the Financial Aid Office would be repor- teaching duties to work full-time on this of the committee had spoken to the ting to the Office of Admissions and project. She will investigate in-depth the people to be affected, they would have Records starting the next Friday or Monday (January 18 or 21). "A month

ago I wasn't even thinking that this "I believe in consultation, but we did would happen," exclaims Brennen. Tubbs, after calling the chancellor and not have the luxury of consultation... requesting a written confirmation, Spring may be the only time we have to received a memo about the move on January 24. get this unit in order." ^ "We did not have the time," explains Corrigan. "I believe in consultation, but we did not have the luxury of con- Chancellor Corrigan sultation. External problems made the time element essential. Spring may be proposed changes and will report to this [the reaction] the had a better sense that the only time we have to get this unit in chancellor. would have happened." order." Commenting the on committee's Vice Chancellor Baxter comments, Brennen comments, "If we had been charge, Tonn stated, "Our line of "It's not the plan itself, but the way the consulted, some of these accusations thinking was: what was the chancellor situation was handled . . . There's would not have been made . . . The responsible for, and what kinds of struc- dispute over owns always been a who move was external to me. I had nothing tures would be needed for him to func- takes a what services." Baxter to do with it." tion efficiently." On the lack of con- philosophical approach to changes The lack of consultation on both levels sultation she replied, "If you're going to chancellor proposed in his area. "As vice has caused a plunge in morale among the make changes about reporting lines at Finance, I've seen of Administration and professional staff. Baxter says, "The the top, you talk to people when you've the computer center move in and out of process has been harmful; everyone's got your ideas clear. In the end it is the office several times. I've been here my level of anxiety was raised by the way it chancellor's decision." with several chancellors. You see things was done." Safwat revealed that the but weather the committee move around you Many professional staff first heard of had used several is sources to formulate storm . . . Lee's [Tubb's] situation the report through SAC chairperson and

Wavelength 30 "

student Lucky Dodson who had received we would be leaving Student Affairs was grants," states Sheri Thomas, Info direc-

a copy from the chancellor before it had painful. Financial Aid is a student affair. tor and former student. Prefreshmen been distributed to the staff. "It was bad Student Affairs is the Motherland. We Program Director Charles Desmond has that the report got distributed before look at the move as if we're going to a requested to remain under Tubbs this anyone had a chance to discuss it. In- new land." because of Tubbs' expertise in area. formation coming from the bottom up Vice Chancellor Tubbs is upset over Corrigan and Broderick view the tran-

instead of the top down is always distur- the loss of this office and over the sfer in a different light. "Tubbs is to be bing." proposed removal of Info, Prefreshmen commended for bringing to the campus John Robinson, director of the Coun- Programs and others. He and other and developing those programs, but I seling Center under the Student Affairs Student Affairs veterans see this as part never agreed that those programs should Office declares, "Not consulting your of a historical process to undermine the be reporting to him," states Broderick.

staff on major changes is poor effectiveness of the Student Affairs Of- Corrigan states flatly, "The federal

managerial practice. The chancellor is fice. government is responsible for the gran- naive. He's never led a university before Corrigan feels this view is uncalled for, ts." and he doesn't know what he's doing." "The entire university is for students," Tubbs has announced his intention to Commenting on a comparison made he asserts. To which Lucky Dodson resign. As the situation escalated, and in- between Corrigan's tactics and those of responds, "They may be there, but I sults, real or perceived accumulated, Boston University President John Silber, don't see them going out of their way for Tubbs felt an irreversible breakdown bet- Robinson offers, "Having worked with students." ween him and Corrigan which left no

John Silber, I'd say Corrigan isn't fit to walk on the same intellectual street as Silber." Don Costello of Placement Services "My concern isn't people, my concern is states, "When the administratin comes in and makes changes without feedback, process and structure. that's professional disrespect." Broderick notes, "The other changes Joan Tonn are not going to be made without consultation with those involved." alternative but for him to resign his Student Affairs Tubbs position, lending a prophetic dimension to Don Costello's comments. "They're At the center of the philosophical The focal point of the Student Affairs trying to force Tubbs out. Many people dispute is the Office of Student Affairs, dispute is Vice Chancellor Tubbs. Many don't like him, even people who don't its relationship to the rest of the campus, feel that Tubbs is Student Affairs, that know him." and its function. Under the present struc- he embodies the philosophy behind ture, the vice chancellor of Student Af- Student Affairs. Student Affairs vs Academic fairs shares an equal relationship with Lucky Dodson declares, "What's good the other two vice chancellors, at least about Lee Tubbs is that he's visible on Costello and other professional staff on paper. The proposed restructuring campus. He goes to SAC meetings and see the reorganization in a broader light would change that. In addition, with the he socializes with students. He's not as well. "You have to look at this strict division between academic and afraid of students." historically. Student Affairs has always

non-academic functions, nearly half of Tubbs' staff show an enormous degree had to fight to maintain its position. It's the offices under Student Affairs would of loyalty towards him. John Robinson an age-old problem of academic versus be moved elsewhere, severely weakening states, "I came to UMass because of Lee student affairs." the effectiveness of that office. Tubbs, and I didn't have to; I took a» Ray Bronk, assembly chairperson and Many students feel that Student Af- salary cut to come here. The salary here one of the authors of the plan, expresses

fairs is their only representation on the is just a cut above welfare so that's not one view, "The trend across the country

administration. Student Affairs per- why anyone would work in student af- is to separate into academic and non- sonnel agree. Lucky Dodson feels that fairs, for the money." academic functions," a position others student services should be under one per- One of the areas that Tubbs is most see as arbitrary and unrealistic. "You son. "No one should have to go to credited for is the development of the can't separate a student into academic several places to get something done." Prefreshmen Programs. The grants and non-academic areas," points out Lana Brennen, reflecting on her years which fund these programs were Tubbs. in Student Affairs, comments, "People in arranged through Tubbs and staff mem- John Robinson elaborates on this

Student Affairs feel they are advocates bers are anxious to point out that Tubbs point. "Student Affairs is an academic

for students. Student life is very im- has a national reputation for his work in function. The problem is in utilization of

portant on campus because this is a com- this area. Yet on the proposed available resources. The Student Affairs

muter campus. You have to have a lot of reorganization plan, those programs staff is qualified to teach courses and the student-life people here because we are would be moved to the academic side of university could benefit from this, but

dealing with non-traditional types of the system. when I have requested, begged, to be

students. If I had a choice, I'd stay in "By transferring the Prefreshmen allowed to teach even one course, they

Student Affairs. It's my home." Programs, they are taking away from won't let me. I can teach at Harvard, but because he got the She further states, "The reality that Tubbs all his work, I can't teach here . . . What the

Wavelength 31 academics don't realize is that without The university is in a state of flux. Still blocks on an organizatinal chart cannot

Student Affairs — counseling, financial new and growing, UMass has yet to be moved about as if there were no aid — they might not have any students define its identity; the reorganization people in these positions. to teach." plan can, therefore, have an enormous The administrators often seem so

impact on the direction this protean in- removed from the daily life of students stitution will take in future years. that we pay no attention to their ac-

Broken down to its simplest terms, the tivities. But the actions and decisions of conflict seems to be one of people versus those folks on the 3rd floor of the Ad- system. This is, perhaps, over-simplified, ministratin Building have a direct but many of those involved declare this bearing on the quality and kind of

is the case. education we receive. If these people

Don Costello sums up these feelings. can't communicate, if they can't be clear "The most important thing is that the on who we are and why we exist, then

people involved can work together to UMass is in a great deal of trouble. meet the mission of the university." Chris Alberto, candidate for Student This attitude calls for constant sen- Trustee, sums up his reaction to the sitivity from administrators influencing reorganization plan this way: "The reorganization in the next few months. It move to reorganize the administration, is not enough to study systems as Joan especially the Office of Student Affairs,

Tonn, who has stated "My concern isn't without student representation, is anti- people, my concern is process and struc- student, anti-democratic and outrageous.

ture." is doing. That may be her job, and It cannot be tolerated. It shows lack of as the chancellor point out, "It is my job concern that endangers the university."

to be concerned about people." Still, INFO Director Sheri Thomas "\ The transfer of Financial Aid to the Jamaica side r academic has brought this conflict

into sharp relief. The chancellor feels Strong gusting winds that, "In order to the meet needs of in- Towering mountain peaks among the firmest rocks coming students, admissions and finan- Hottest noon day sun cial aid must be together. Those groups Deep blue rivers, ocean water working together will create better access Jamaica, Jamaica for students." Jamaica land of my birth Douglas Hartnagel, dean of Ad- Jamaica land good enough for my spirit's worth missions and Records, where Financial Jamaica, Jamaica Aid has been relocated, states "The tran- Take me home by land, by sea sfer is a model that can provide the kinds Jamaica, I long to be with thee of services students need." Broderick concurs, "The programs Jah land where people are warm would benefit from a closer co-operation Jah land where my father still farm from the academic side," adding, Jah land with Poinsietta's charm "Realistically, there's always more power Jah land of Logwood, Eucalyptus balm in academics." Jah land of morn Costello, former Admissions director Jamaica, Jamaica when Admissions was under Tubbs who has worked in both Student and Xamaca Academic Affairs, states, "When the Horizontal academic take over, what you get is a Yon mountain lack of leadership," adding, "This present Draped scarlet setting sun reorganization plan is part of a historical Glowing fire to the days undone process to give power to the academics." Hard fought victories won Lana Brennen concludes, "I'm just Land birthed by children whose wisdom has come one more domino in the history of Land upon the beating drum student affairs." Jamaica, Jamaica People or Process Jamaica land of my birth Jamaica land good enough for my spirit's worth The issues raised by the reorganization Jamaica, Jamaica plan are many and complex. They ex- Take me home tend far the report, striking at beyond By land, by sea some of the deepest held beliefs about Jamaica, I long, to be with thee the function of UMass. The relationship between the university's human elements deta galloway — students, faculty, and staff — are May, 28th, 1975 questioned. V. J Wavelength 32 i iii i ii i' i iii ' 'iiyiii i i .i l j iiiiii , i i » . nw i. , .. . i M. - n n Mwii , WM. J r Mj n^ ^m

Progression

Sitting here watching my thoughts march back & forth out of mind's grasp down my arm my leg reach my knee dive

off into their imaginary pool swim across the floor to the closet disappear through a small crack in the wall.

John G.Hall

Steven Eric Emmond

twilight

a rhapsody! orange clouds & purple suns Resisting Conclusions ignite the world of violins, My calculations are careful. bright eyed clowns My clownish convolutions like empty ballerina slippers do not afford filled with air an imaginary life. dance across the horizon

no s

I am doing the best that I can:

There are still so many cars and no where to go there is snow sticking to the ground

I am not able, am not able. w It isn't spring,

It never will be spring.

Stick head in ground, Burrow under covers, world outside no good, unicorns gallop go back to bed. in clover fields.

Maris Nichols on earth's dark side Aurora weeps her morning tears.

A. EM.

Wavelength 33 Governance continued from page 17 60 percent faculty, but there have been primary instrument by which this right is problems attracting student represen- exercised on matters of College gover- bound by the vote. Both Steamer and " tatives. Lack of active student represen- nance. Golino are no longer with the university tation in the Assembly can only have a The Constitution of the College ofAr- and many of the students now on cam- negative effect on the student body as a ts and Sciences pus don't remember the merger of the whole. When issues like the pass/fail two colleges or the free period issue. But Many students at UMass have recently policy or the transformation of in- everybody remembers how last semester become aware of the College of Arts and completes into "F's" are discussed, ended without a reading week. This Sciences Senate (see Vol. 1, issue 2, student participation is of obvious im- major inconvenience, which had an ad- "Proving Proficiency"). Each of the portance. Even though the powers of the verse effect on many of our final exam colleges has a governance body com- Assembly are limited, important changes grades, originated in the Assembly. The posed of faculty, students and staff. In can be made before the student body is Academic Affairs Committee of the the College of Professional Studies, it is even aware they are being discussed. At Assembly is in charge of drawing up the called the College Council, and in the the least, student participation keeps us university calendar. The reading week College of Public and Community Ser- aware of pending decisions before official problem resulted from the decision to ex- vice, it is the Policy Board. Just as the decisions are made. This gives us a chan- pand the semesters at UMB from 13 to Assembly recommends policy to the ce to organize around issues as they come 14 weeks as part of the effort to upgrade chancellor, the college governance bodies up instead of after the fact. standards. Once the decision had been recommend policy to the dean. Although A student representative can only be made to expand the semester, there were student participation is important for effective with strong support from the three possible ways to do this: start each, this article will deal only with the rest of the student body. All of the school before Labor Day, start school af- CAS governance body. student representatives interviewed said ter Labor Day and have exams in they would like to see more involvement The CAS senate is a group of elected schedule January, or follow the regular representatives, from students and more interaction bet- twenty-two of whom are and cut reading week. The third option ween students who serve on the Assem- students. The Senate makes recom- was chosen. mendations concerning variety bly, the SAC, and other college gover- a of Not having a reading week was bad issues; curriculum, nance bodies. They also expressed a need admissions, ad- enough, but what really disturbed ministrative operations, the budget, for the student body to define more long and students was that didn't they know planning and development of the college, term goals and to maintain continuity in about the change until the end of the nominating the dean and in reviewing working towards these goals. They all semester. By then it was too late to do his performance "at least every five agreed upon the need for more regular much catching up. years." media coverage. the free period issue and The merger, If you've never heard of elections for Up until recently, the Mass Media reading week are three instances the the CAS Senate, this is not surprising. covered the Assembly meetings on a central questions which illustrate two These elections are supposed to take place regular basis. However, activities in the regarding the assembly: how responsive every two years, with the majors in each state legislature regarding the future is the administration to the recom- department voting for a representative, state of public higher education, have mendations of the assembly, and how but this doesn't always happen. Earl Por- taken precedence in the school representative is the of student assembly ter, Senate Student Co-Chair found newspaper's coverage of campus gover- interests? that part of his job entailed "going nance bodies. At present there are eight standing around to the chairperson of each depar- The remaining Assembly meetings this committees of the Assembly: the tment and convincing them that it was semester are scheduled on the following Steering Committee, the Committee on their responsibility to see to it that the Mondays at 2:30 in the Small Science Committees (handles nominations of elections are held." Porter welcomes Auditorium: February 25, March 10, Assembly members to committees), more student involvement in the Senate. 24, 31 (the 31st is "provisional"), April Academic Affairs Committee (develops For more information, he can be reached 14, 28 and May 5. Meetings are open to "policy recommendations relating to at 787-5792. For information concerning all students. every aspect of undergraduate academic the other colleges, contact the dean's of- and curricular life"), Graduate Council According to the Assembly's by-laws, fice.

(deals with "all matters relating to the the annual election "shall occur no later An article dealing with governance administration of the graduate than April 30." The exact date has not bodies would certainly be remiss to end program"),Budget Committee, Planning yet been set. without mentioning that supreme body - Trustees. Appointed by the Committee, Student Affairs (non- Other Governance Bodies the Board of academic support services for students, Governor, it is described by the Student foreign students, athletics and student Affairs Newsletter as a "respected group discipline and grievances), and the In- "The right of members of the College of community leaders, educators, and stitutional Review Board for the Protec- of Arts and Sciences to participate in business persons who establish policy for tion of Human Subjects Committee decisions affecting their responsibilities the University, maintaining ultimate

(required by the Federal Government to and careers is a basic right and gives sub- responsibility." "review and recommend policies con- stantial authority to the Senate. Subject The Student Trustee is the voice of the cerning research involving human sub- to the authority of the Dean of the students on this board, not an easy role to jects"). College, the Chancellor, and the fill. It requires someone not easily in- As mentioned earlier, the Assembly President, and to the final authority of timidated or impressed by people in should consist of 40 percent students and the Board of Trustees, the Senate is the powerful positions, unafraid to speak up Wavelength 34 repeatedly in the interests of the student great learning experience. Unfortunately, body, and able to be persuasive. Without the experience gained by one group of communication and support from the students is seldom passed on to the next. This is difficult rest of the student body, the position a problem to solve given the rapid isn't worth much more than a good ad- turnover of the student body. dition to a person's resume. Perhaps there could be some sort of A All the student representative student orientation by students for positions involve attending meetings, students provided for all the incoming talking with people, and keeping up with freshmen and tra nsfers. This would help the various things going on with other prevent the nov/that-I-know-what-goes- student representatives, as well as with on-at-this-place-;\t's-time-to-graduate-syn- the administration. Presently, there drome. seems to be little communication between Who knows? Maybe some day we ** student representatives and little might even haive a student union. There

cooperation. What is needed is a more has been talk of it for years. Imagine a

cohesive approach to student represen- student union with offices for all the tation. If representatives cannot get RSOs and student representatives, a together, and share with each other what student information center, student sup-

is going on in their particular sphere, port services, offices for student run then perhaps they could regularly submit operations, and a bigger pub. A student articles to a student newsletter which union would go a long way towards would keep us all informed of SAC making UMass a less alienating ex- business, commitee reports in the Assem- perience. bly, subjects discussed at Board of .8 Trustees meetings and important decisions being made in all the college governace bodies. Without some effort to pull together as students with some common interests, student representation will continue to be a disjointed affair. Being a student representative can be a

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Wavelength 35 tendance; Cleveland had none. A Academic Support Office while con- Cleveland continued from page 11 decision was to ht delivered to Cleveland, tinuing part-time duties in the English- other classes she had attended for credit. at the absolute latest, on January 25. He Department. Marcia Lloyd of the Art

The department chairman didn't like heard nothing unt il February 6; Knapp's Department is currently battling for her those letters and took them out." Huggler decision was negati ve. tenure. The English Department lost a maintains the 3 letters he removed after The case now goes into arbitration, and nationally-known black Faulkner scholar conferring with members of his depart- Cleveland feels sure that the university last year, Thadious Davis. After an ar- ment were weak and illiterate and that will continue its delaying tactics beyond dent search in the job market, the depart- Cleveland's accusations of the letters the term of his contr act. "I'm up against ment hired another black professor, but being complimentary to him and in- institutional racism. It seems to me that the professor eventually declined the of- sulting to the department are false. my work and the whole general issue of fer. Cleveland said recently, "There is a paucity of black tenured professors on the faculty. There couldn't be more than 7 or "Lowering a department's standards to 8 at the most in a body that numbers provides around four hundred. Ed Strickland, fulfill Affirmative Action quotas head of Black Studies, is the only black to ' receive tenure right away without having a slice life that isn't very interesting. of to protest on some level during the seven

years I have been here. Everybody else, John Huggler all blacks, had to protest. That is continuing discrimination, institutional racism. How do you explain that? Are we passed on to Ac- my tenure centers around my blackness. The tenure case was all that bad?" Being black, they look upon you in a dif- ting Chancellor Claire Van Ummersen Things are different here for black ferent light, to see if you can cope with who upheld Dean Riccards' negative professors. One attitude towards Af- the situation at UMass. I felt that I was decision. In order for the dean to reverse firmative Action was summed up by John on trial." The status of the tenure case a department's vote for a professor's Huggler: "Lowering a department's stan- in Cleveland's case, he now is, as John Huggler charac terized it, tenure>.unanimous dards to fulfill Affirmative Action quotas to the one of "accusation and denial." must ha\e, according UMass provides a slice of life that isn't very in- Affirmative Action at UMas: '/Boston tenure process, "clear and compelling teresting." Out of 6 tenure candidates tur- continues to be discussed by the ad- reasons" for the action. Cleveland felt ned down last year, the 4 whites all had ministration as something that will take that the dean's^easons were not sub- negative votes from their departments. place in the future. Essentially, the plan is stantial and that the chancellor's decision The two blacks rejected, Dr. Cleveland to spend a lot of money and hire a big- was equally insubstantial. He sub- and Marcia Lloyd, had positive recom- name black as a full professor, and, sequently filed grievances with the Af- mendations from their departments. hopefully, this name will draw other firmative Action Office, the Cleveland's was unanimous and Lloyd's blacks to the UMass/Boston faculty. Massachusetts Commission Against was 4 for, 2 against. This does not seem However, there are already black na mes Discrimination, the Faculty-Staff Union, to indicate any lowering of departmental on the faculty, but most of them are and the Black Caucus. standards. Cleveland added, "It is dif- hearings followed with the being driven away. Clyde Evans, A series of ficult for some whites to accept the fact new chancellor, Robert Corrigan. At the a nationally-known philosophy professor, that a black is the most popular professor Joel Blair won tenure last year after a long and b.it- first hearing, Asst. Chancellor in their department." appeared, instead of Chancellor Corrigan, and declared that the hearing could not "I'm up against institutional racism. It be held because Cleveland had legal counsel with him and the university did not. seems to me that the whole general issue "They kr- v I was going to have counsel and the university has three of its own of my tenure centers around my lawyers. That was a way of delaying," states Cleveland. There was another blackness. Blacks have to keep proving hearing which Corrigan attended. He upheld the negative decision stating that themselves at every level. It is frustrating there were procedural irregularities but they were rectified in the tenure process. and degrading. " 6 d ~ r & ^ * ^ Cleveland said, "This is absolutely ab- Dr. Jefferson Cleveland surd. How can you rectify the removal of letters from a file? How can you rectify ter struggle. He also won the The unfortunate truth is that giving the professor the wrong deadline?" Distinguished Teaching Award last year, UMass/Boston has acquired a national

The major portion of Corrigan's letter but is on sabbatical leave now, coun- reputation for denying equal opportunity was a reprimand to the FSU for its han- selling at Harvard, and there has been to black faculty. "Blacks have to keep dling of the case. some speculation that he may not return proving themselves at every level," said On December 20, 1979, a hearing was to UMass. Marilyn Truesdell has been Cleveland. "It is frustrating and held with President Knapp. The univer- removed from a tenure track and has degrading." sity had 2 lawyers in at- been demoted to a position in the

Wavelength 36 Saved continued from page 25 reach my stop. Precisely seventeen. Yes, from the glass. It has to work, it must,

that's me, or was, precise and correct. but it's not. Nothing has changed. I'm

Always. The brakes screech, the doors still shaking. The heart beats faster and

fly open, and I dash from the ca.r. faster. It's not working. It's not working. sanest people I know. Everything will be in I fine. Stop worrying, will you?" Out the open, near home. I feel a must lie down, I won't allow this to

little better I won't. "But I'm taking eight classes this but not much. The walk happen,

takes ten minutes. it o'clock. semester and seven of them are in home Timed once, Ten Time keeps moving. Rest history." never wrong. Halfway down the street I and set the alarm for two and then stop and finish. Pillows "Why the hell would anyone take peer through the supermarket cradle my head and the

eight classes?" window. I need things but the store is blankets melts my frozen veins. Maybe the golden liquid hasn't failed. It's finally "It's the only way I can get away from too crowded. My reflection in the win- taking effect. heart down. the disco ducks. And besides I want to dow peers back at me and I study it. The slows The panic seems to be drifting away. Sleep, graduate in June, so I can enter the Miss Nothing amiss physically. Then why do I will America Pageant." still feel clammy and shaky? I'll just sleep make things better. I toss and

"The Miss America Pageant? I take study a little and then get a good night's turn but soon get comfortable. My eyes

that back. Worry." sleep. Things will be better in the mor- feel heavy, and then . . .

"See, I got this thing for Bert ning. "Susan, you're a failure and always ." will be. You can't do anything right. I Parks . . Darkness comes early now and it takes "Bert Parks? He's not even the Master a few minutes for the eyes to adjust to don't know what will happen to you."

of Ceremonies anymore." the dim light. I fumble for the light swit- "No, you're wrong, Mother. I only

"What? You mean I took up guitar for ch. The room is bathed in a soft white flunked one exam. Why won't you leave nothing?" glow. My coat falls from my shoulder me alone? I won't pay forever for one "Hey Sue, where you going?" and floats down onto the chair. Habit exam. Stop it, stop it! Shut up?"

beastly roar I "Well, I hate to drink and run, but I arranges the books on the desk. The A drains my voice and

have a Victorian English exam clock strikes four. Study is thie most im- pound the pillow into the metal head- board harder until tomorrow and I better get home and portant thing now. Six more exams this and harder blood oozes from the skin. study for it. I'll call you later, maybe. week. Fear of failure wraps around me. I cracking They're Take care and don't drink too much/' struggle to shake off the fowl blanket, wrong. I must prove them wrong. I can

"I won't. See you later, Sue. And take knowing full well that I am powerless to see the exam. It grows and grows and as

it easy. You're not going nuts." prevent its return. The hours race by it does, it changes into a horrible mon- faster than the turning pages. My eyes ster. begin to sting and my hands start Under the veil of darkness I see the shaking. Nine o'clock now. I know I'm hideous creature approach. Every fiber I go to my locker and get my coat. I doomed to flunk all six exams. \ need a of my being trembles and my arms place the books for tonights study in my break, but push on. Panic takes over. clamp to my sides. I am impotent, tote bag and head to the bus stop. The Sweat beads form on my brow. powerless. The paralysis is complete. The bus stop is crowded with a hundred My heart, the palpitations are starting creature's blood red eyes burn through other bodies. All waiting. All looking. again. This has to stop. I must be strong. my body and its death black claws reach Maybe at me? Do they know I flunked? A chill shivers up my spine. I push away for my head. My body convulses with The bus pulls to a stop and I press for- from the desk as if it is engulfed in agony as the creature's claws rip away ward, aiming for the back. Good studen- flames. My head throbs again. Slowly at my skull exposing the pulsating brain. ts in front, bad ones in back. The bus first, but gradually gaining force until I The blood flows down in never ending stops at the train station. That was fast. want to scream. I try once more bui' the waves. My last chance is to kill the mon- Where the hell is that train? I got to get vision blurs and the words jumble. I ster. I must get a knife or something and home and study for the next exam, and can't read. Oh God, please help me. The kill it. Once, twice, over and over I slash then the next, the next . . . The litter nerves are taking control. They must be at it and then . . . crumples under my feet as I pace the stopped. I have to. do something. I know Pain. Pain brings me back. I turn on platform. The wind directs scattered — a drink. A drink will calm me down the lights. Vaguely, through the blinding matter at me. Discarded cigarettes and and then I can finish. light I look at my hand. There is blood papers surround me, possibly sensing one running down my arm from a gash. I of their own. Another discard? Another must have knocked over the glass on the rejected piece of matter? nightstand and cut myself on the broken With a rush of air the train pulls into I know there's a bottle of scotch here pieces. I run to the bathroom and wash the station. The doors fly open. There is somewhere so why is it all I can find is it off. The cut is deep. I try pressing a an empty seat in the corner and I sit three packages of lime kool-aid? Oh wait cloth on it but the blood won't stop. Oh down. The train jolts as it moves out of a minute, did I put in the desk drawer? shit! I'll have to go to the hospital and the station and the litter waves good-bye. Ah, the golden liquid flows smoothly get it stitched. How will explain it? The The exam is still with me. I try to from the bottle into the glass. It alone doctors will think I'm nuts. distract myself by reading the posters. contains the power to stop the panic, to

Unfortunately the poster opposite me push it away, to quiet the nerves. My assures me that I, too, can get a college lips and eyes burn as the liquid goes "Susan Adams, please come into room education. down. A second gulp, and then another, five. The doctor will see you now." It only takes seventeen minutes to and another, until the last drop is sucked

Wavelength 37 "Wow. That's a deep cut. How did it anxiety, but in depression and friendships that would allow him to happen?" As the needle moves in and psychosomatic complaints. I did a study share his feelings and let off steam. It's out among the folds of my flesh I fran- with one of my classes a number of years always reassuring to know others are tically try to think of an answer that's ago. I asked the students to keep track of having similar problems, that you are believable. the critical life events they experienced not alone. "I really don't know, doctor. I was during the semester. Periodically I asked If you are a student experiencing studying for an exam and I must have tbem to fill out a questionnaire that stress, there are services on campus that fallen asleep at my desk and knocked looked at symptoms of anxiety, can help you. The Counseling Center is over a glass. When I woke up my hand depression, and psychosomatic com- located in the Administration Building was all bloody." plaints. A pattern developed. There is a on the second floor, across from Health

"Exams huh. I remember times in rhythm to the academic semester. It star- Services. There are always counselors medical school when I would stay up all ts off reasonbly slow, except for the first around to see students in crisis night and cram. Business tends to pick hectic week when students are trying to situations. But Dr. Robinson encourages up around here during exam weeks get classes. Then there is a lull. Tension students to come early, before things get because of all the students living near by. begins to build till mid-terms. This is out of hand. "It's always good to get a Some come in here thinking their having followed by a second lull, and students mental health check-up. When we see a a heart attack, others come in because begin to relax a little. But then tension student in a crisis situaion, about all we they can't sleep. It's the same old story. starts to build and it continues to in- can do immediately is calm the student Exam anxiety. But we all get over it." crease right through finals. It's very down. We prefer to see him sooner.

"That's not my problem doctor. I just predictable every semester." There is, however, a waiting period for fell asleep, that's all." Exam anxiety is a complaint frequen- appointments. Last year, our first year of

"Well then I guess you're one of the tly heard at both the Counseling Center, operation, we saw 1,100 students. That lucky ones. Now I want you to go home in the Administration Building, and at shows me there is a need for these ser- and get some sleep. I'll put a bandage on the Peer Counseling Center in Building vices on this campus. But we are under- your hand. Try not to use it for a few 020. It is oiae of the predictable, tradi- staffed. In most long-term cases we have days because the stitches are in a dif- tional, forms of student anxiety. Now, to send the student outside the university ficult spot for healing." though, m,any students are feeling to get the appropriate help. Fortunately

"But Doctor, this is my writing hand. worried over written work. Exams and student insurance will cover the cost, up I've got six more exams to take." term papeirs can inflict a tremendous to $500. Unfortunately, sometimes a "Six more exams? What are you, amount of pressure on a student. These student needs help beyond that point, 9" student of the year, or just plain nuts are graded and give to the student a con- and if we had more staff, the student "Would you believe both?" crete measure of how well he is coping would not come back to point one. But I

"I'm sure your professors will un- with his studies. The pressure over writ- feel this is where the Peer Counseling derstand Susan. You can't possibly write ten work can be either internal or peer Center, in Building 020 can work for with that hand." pressure. The student wants desperately some. We have a highly trained and "Can't write? That's right. I can't to succeed. At the same time he may be dedicated staff of professionals and write! Hey, would you mind putting that competing with twenty other students students there. Some students might feel

in writing? Thanks doctor. I got to go for the "A." Many times to help alleviate better talking to another student rather home and feed my goldfish." some of the pressure, students resort to than a 'shrink'. We exist solely for the taking incompletes. This is one option students." available to students here but should Professor Liem feels that perhaps only t>e used when absolutely necessary. more women students would seek help Incompletes have a rippling effect over than male students. "I think women V student the following semester. A may have been socialized to feel it's more ac-

Anxiety continued from page 24 is increase stress upon himself when he ceptable to go seek help when they have taking five or six new courses while also than for male students who alleviate a large portion of anxiety for a problems trying to complete work from the have been socialized to feel they must student. It also helps professors deal with previous semester. deal with it themselves. I don't think the students, as less classroom time is spent Interestingly, stress does not always experience of anxiety is any different, trying to pick up lost ground. have to be in negative terms such as to seek help might Assistant Professor of Psychology, but the willingness e:tams, finding a job, or financial be." Joan Liem also feels there is a lot more problems. It can often be related to can see, there is nothing anxiety at UMass/Boston than on a resi- As you rx>sitive events. Getting married, having about student stress. You are dential campus because we are a com- unusual •a child, or getting an A on an exam or strange or crazy for seeking help. muter campus and have a different stu- not paper can cause a student stress. The not only affects your dent population. "Students here are Anxiety and stress student has demonstrated to himself and performance in school, but also your in- juggling many more things than I cer- the professor that he has a grasp on the terpersonal relationships on the outside. tainly tried to juggle as a student. A lot material. Now he might feel pressured to it through life without are not only dealing with the Nobody makes live up to the standards he has set. be smart. If you're feeling requirements of school, but are also problems, so Student anxiety can also arise out of the get help. The services are here working and taking care of families. pressured, feelings of alienation that surround a for students, don't be afraid to check Frankly, I don't know how they do it. I commuter campus. Often a student them out. And do it before you are a feel it can be a very stressful situation. comes in, takes four classes in a row, and wreck. You often see the results not only in nervous leaves. He doesn't have the time to form Wavelength 38 Genteel Psycho Ward

I in

The feeling of the thing is orange In the sluggish morning Orange and green and bright striped artifice Back to the sun Draping the grey personae Back against the sun A day glo shroud The surging professionals A psyche bouquet of brain cell wilt Descend Motionless Invade

The square circle of twitching polar regions Pervade • The feet and the fingers Ring around the silence

r.p.m.ing the message; I am alive With bell shaped enforceable I AM ALIVE Expecations Morsely Coding the statacco wireless The plastic serrated knife Please connect SOS Smiles grind uselessly I am alive Against the angular foxhole quiet

The temper of the blade is insufficient The microwave button The vaduum maintains X-rays heating inside out in 45 second Roars

Intervals gorges itself on

The surface is cold The power of the not-word But probe Sparks in the air

Probe with needles Arcing the room I am alive Probe with fingers Probe with heart IV

The heat is inside .... I am alive The magic talisman Dated Polaroid faces II Coded info — unnecessary really The disguises are clear The one's who look up are t^em The poker chips pass The one's who look down are us The give and the take Look up The black and the red Space filling syllables pulled out The win and the lose Hastilly assembled into order

We are in training for life Spill across the room The blank pain faces Bounce off the walls Open and Close The excess returns home The day Fills her ears The meat processed white bread sandwich day Identified The clothes drier clangs the whole story Yes, I made those sounds Round and around Giggles Snickers Random relief Cleaner, drier Rampant apathy

No better for the wear The fish is bad

The phone is orange The dispersed bodies Four minutes to go Slippered and shuffling their fear dance The weedend smothers out Tread on boots eager for flight The monday rushes in Cornered Sitting this one out Ready or not

She's only passing through I am alive The tap from behind affronts her hubris With Lithium eyes say Janet Diamond I am alive

Wavelength 39 Billy continued from page 15 kitchen with millions of flowers and plants all over the place.

saying too bad your tits are so small or something like that, There'd even be a big full garden I could look out my window

and I'll tell you, Billy never said one bad thing about my tigure and see, with tomatoes bursting on the vines, nice and ripe and ever, even when we'd have a really mean fight. red, and lines of clean laundry strung out in the sun to dry. I'd

Anyway, I kept on trying to get him to go to New York. picture us with a bunch of kids with that curly fox-colored hair

"You gotta see it" I'd say. "It's nothing like this town, it's so he's got, and little cheeks like macintosh apples and round eyes big and you gotta ride the subway for an hour just to get from like green marbles and I'd yell out to him, "I love you baby -- one end to the other." But he'd say he hated cities, they were I'm never gonna leave you, ever." And he'd come over and too big and dirty and there wasn't any trees and stuff. I told hold me real close against his chest and he smelled so good, him about that big park right in the middle and how they had kinda sweaty, like a man should smell, and he'd say "You're concerts and plays and stuff and there was even a zoo in there my woman, mama, no man's ever gonna love you like I do." but he just kept on saying cities weren't natural and people But somehow, even when I felt like this I'd know way deep

weren't meant to live like that. We never had the money down I couldn't stay and we'd never get the house with the

anyways, cuz I was still going to high school and he just played fireplaces, or the garden, or the kids with the macintosh cheeks in the band but he never had a real job. and I'd get to feeling really sad, and he'd say, on the way back to town, "What's the matter with you, now you're getting all depressed again." And sometimes when the And I'd just say,"I always get that way after we make love. I makes me feel kinda quiet and sad." trailors went by, he'd whimper So you see, that's why it took so long to end it all. Because I'd always go back and forth - first New York, then the gar- in his sleep and grab me real den, the kids, the sheets. Lots of times I'd say, "Now we gotta stop doing this Billy."

tight.. with his whole body And I'd tell him I didn't love him anymore and he'd say, "You do. You always will." And then I'd stay out my girlfriends for all curled around mey hot and a few days but he'd always know where I was. One time he

the drainpipe in my window when I was there and kind sleepy- smelling... climbed up of he said, "Oh mama, you gotta come back, I can't live without

you." But sometimes it isn't enough to be young and in love.

You gotta think of your future. You can't stay in some little Lots of people would probably think I sorry I was later got hick town all your life trying to get a man you love to work. involved with him, and dropped out of high school and all I used to think about this song a lot, but I can't really that. But I'll tell you, I never regretted loving him one bit, remember the words. It had something to do with going out in- because before it went bad, it was so good, and I loved him so to the world and how you couldn't ever be satisfied going back much ~ sometimes I think never love HI anybody that way where you came from again. I can't remember who wrote it, again in my whole life. It was like taking a brand-new car you but that damn song made me think about New York and I never drove yet and putting it down to the floor on a long, flat kind of thought maybe that was some place I wanted to go. I stretch of the interstate and just going faster and faster til the figured there must be a whole lot of places like New York in trees are a blur of green and all you can hear is the screaming the world, but that was a good place to start. Like there, you of the engine and you know it's gonna take a long, long time could meet all different kinds of people, smart people and in- to stop without anybody getting killed. And it's like that too teresting people and people who had all different kinds of because it's something you can only do when you're too lives from all over the place. See, that kind of stuff was what young and too stupid to think much about what you're I wanted - you know, variety. doing. When you get older, you get afraid to take those kind Well finally, I ended up dropping out of school and I got a of rides, and your car gets older too, and it just won't that go waitress job because we needed money real bad. It was a little fast, even when you push it. diner type place right near the bus station. Lots of nights Now it's kind of hard to explain this, but I really loved that Billy would come in right before I got off work and I'd never Billy. make up a check and always tell him get whatever you want Sometimes when the weather was warm we'd go up the but he'd never get anything besides an egg-salad sandwich and mountain and find a field somewhere and make love, and af- a glass of chocolate milk. terwards I'd be looking up through the leaves to the sky and While I was waiting on my customers, I could see the buses the birds would be making some kind of symphony almost, leaving for Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, and New York and I could feel the grass and the dirt sticking to my hips and City. And I took my money and hid it in one of the sauce con- shoulder blades and could smell the way the pine trees filled up tainers in the old store. the sky, and the dirt smelled so clean he'd and be going around Lots of times I'd tell Billy I had a bad day and only made picking flowers or something and I'd see his neat little ass and five dollars in tips, but I really had fifteen or twenty usually I'd think to myself, "Fuck New York. I don't wanna live and I'd never buy a thing. I just saved every penny. I wasn't there." And I'd think how I could be happy sleeping on clean sure really what I was saving for, but I guess I figured one day sheets every night with him - you the know kind you see in I'd have to leave and then I'd need money for a car or the department store advertisements with flowers or something because I wasn't going to stay in that little hick something all over them and the pillows would be brand-new town all my life. looking and real puffy. And I'd think about having some nice After I had that job awhile, Billy got so he wouldn't do big old house with fireplaces in every room and a big, cheerful anything anymore. He didn't even practice with the band,

Wavelength 40 But when I got to the store, Billy was sitting on the piano even though Cooter would bitch they couldn't practice with a bottle of that whiskey in front of him and a glass without the vocalist. bench looked surprised and happy to see me, like he wasn't ex- Lots of days he'd just drink Jim Beam all day, or go down to and he pecting me at all. And then he got another glass and poured the bar and drink beers off his friends til I got home and then out of stuff he'd start accusing me of being unfaithful to him and he'd say, me some that and then he started unzippering my waitress uniform and kissing all over "You're never gonna find another man who'll love you like I me my neck and do." And I'd say, "Why don't you grow up and get a job or shoulders and he said, "Aw mama, I thought you were gone — promise you'll never leave. I can't live without you." I something. You think I like working in that greasy diner all me day long?" felt like my ribs were gonna crack when he held me, and I Outside the store you could hear the traffic going by on the put my head down because I felt kind of funny, you know, interstate, especially at night when the big rigs would be and my eyes stung and I thought about how the next bus coming in from Florida, or Texas. And sometimes when the wasn't leaving til tomorrow anyways and I said, "No baby, I trailers went by, he'd whimper in his sleep and grab me real won't." tight, and then, while he was lying there asleep, with his whole

body curled up around me, all hot and kind of sleepy- smelling, and I'd be able to see out the window and the trees

would be black against the sky and I could see my crumpled- up waitress uniform and the ugly white shoes, and the

stockings and underwear all scrunched up together like that and I'd put my head down on top of his head and cry a little

bit myself. I'm not sure why, I guess because I knew I'd leave Loving, I'm Giving him one day, and because I knew he needed me a little bit

more than I needed him, because of his mother leaving him Artists and poets and all that. Those trucks used to really scare him, they made build fun a lot of ugly noise, big, rude farts almost, and the bed even And ye who shook sometimes. Pulling fantasy-futures From out of the sun, I could see a lot of stuff from the window of that diner. I'd be able to see the little bunches of people pacing back and forth It's just a dis-ease which acts in front of the terminal, looking at their watches, checking in Just on its whims, throwing their pockets to be sure they had their tickets, and then Mine to one side, finally, in a hurry, kissing each other goodbye.

Leaves me hanging . . . The mothers were the saddest ones to watch, their faces bright and stained with smiles seemed to crack in half at the (On limbs) last minute, right when their kid got swallowed up. And afterwards - when the bus was really gone - they'd walk back Bouncing up, falling down again to their cars real slow and careful, like their legs were made Swaying, the gusts relentless, out of china, and when they got in they'd sit behind the Throw me there, hit me back again, steering wheel for too long, just staring at nothing, before My former course, now a rent mess, they started up the engine. Just sit there, with their hands on the wheel. But my good mind and my love go on I remember the way it was that day. The clouds were thin, Tracking their true course, the mountains behind the store were dark blue. And guide the real me through I got off work early and I went to the square in the middle of This storm some call hell town. It wasn't dark yet and I bought some popcorn from the vendor on the corner. And my life's still worth living — Then I went in the square and sat down on a bench. I was (And that doesn't mean "it could be worse") just sitting there, still in my waitress uniform, and there was In just loving, I'm giving nobody there but me and a couple of old Italian guys, Helping others stay well. coughing and smoking cigars. I fed my popcorn to the pigeons.

And I kept looking at the mountains behind the stores. They Poets and playwrights were turning navy blue in the dusk, like velvet, and the library And ye who sing songs looked so small, and even though there were cars going Showing all of us good above all of the wrongs: around the square, it seemed really quiet to me.

And I was thinking really hard about me and Billy and It's just a dis-ease which acts about how he'd talk a lot when he was drinking about Just on its whims, throwing everything he was gonna do, and he'd make it sound real con- Mine to one side, convincing too, but then he'd never do anything but sit Leaves me hanging .... around listening to rock and roll and drinking Jim Beam in the old store. D. Scott Robinson That's how I knew nothing would've changed. Winter, 1975 And then I decided to just go on down to the bus station next to the diner and buy myself a one-way ticket to New York City, and then go home and get my stuff and my money at the store. Wave engih 41 • g Spring — 80 4 • UMass Film Series^T DATE TITLE ^ ^ 2/25-26 The Hills Have Eyes! directed by Wes Craven 2/27-28 Pink Flamingos w Divine, Mink Stole 3/3-4 Rocky and His Friends w Bullwinkle, Tutor Turtle, Fractured Fairy Tales, etc. 3/5-6 Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different w Eric Idle

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Wavelength 42 AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE UNITED SLATE:

It is important to those of us who are running for office that students remain aware of the imminent SAC elections scheduled on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of February. Lincoln captured the standards of democratic participation when he spoke of government of, by, and for the people. The United Slate was formed precisely because there were those of us who felt the student government at U. Mass. /Boston fell far short of Lincoln's standards.

Just who or what is the United Slate? Basically, we are pluralistic. We ideally are portraying this university community as one of overlapping social, racial, and ethnic groupings, each with a voice in issue and policy decisions. Our experiences working together over the past several years gives us strong reason to vigorously support the premise that it is through peaceable conflict over issues that compromises emerge, resulting in a workable, if not optimal, student policy that we feel assures the participation and rights of those comprising the university community.

We have contended that the most likely reason for students' lack of participation on campus stems from a general feeling of impotency, of alienation from a system that has valued little its group individuality, needs, and interests. This is beginning to change, however, only because the United Slate has tenaciously vocalized and created salience for the issue of campus cultural diversity. As pluralists, we view a healthy, vital system resulting from the interactions and contributions of a heterogeneous student society which is reflective of a world society. The experience we gain from the diversity of race, ethnicity, and class, which is found in the microcosm of the university, can only enhance the success of our experience in the macrocosm of the world. It is the sincere belief of those representing the United Slate that current world events support the reality that American society can no longer afford to ignore the components of its "melting pot."

Our record on SAC gives clear indication of a fulfillment of our commitments and an adherence to our platform promises. Although our semesters on SAC have been spent mostly in defensive action (since the United Slate has never had the majority voting membership) , on the other hand, we have served the University well in impacting budget decisions, blocking in-Commitee political maneuvers which we felt did not serve the University well, protecting the interests of RSO's (Registered Student Organizations), keeping them informed of fiscal and policy changes, and we provided first-rate minority group representation and input into SAC issue and policy decisions.

Like Martin Luther King, we have the same dream: "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." A giant step can begin on this campus when you vote for the United Slate.

Signed by members of the United Slate,

AT-LARGE CAS CPCS Ernest "Lucky" Dodson, TRUSTEE Barbara Lomax Ruth Ann Richards Gladweil Otieno Saul Ortega Brenda Fair Jonathan Baron Greg Macdonald Horace Griffith Davy Perez

Wavelength 43 ° P"id political advcrttscmtnt Greasy continued from page 13

patrons that frequent it. These two exam- ples are obviously just not cut out for our award. But with diligent work they may eventually reach our standards. However, we are sure the other cafeterias shall long be in the running as the in- digestive tracts, or should I say digestive tracts, of the university population can attest to. Wavelength: One last question before you go. Can either one of you tell us if our cafeterias will win this contest?

La Puque: All I can say is don't count your pigeons before they are fried. We saw our honored guests off at Columbia Station and then proceeded to the stomach pumping room of City Hospital because we had ingested quite a bit of the above mentioned foods. We are both doing better now and cards and letters can be sent to City Hospital, rooms 202 and 204. "Par Lxcellente!" Pierre La Puque

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Wavelength 44 continued from page 7 ON BOSTON AND better quality of hitters, one through ON THE DESIGNATED PHILLY FANS seven, in the line-up than in the HITTERS American League. There's a strike zone

difference between the leagues that I I think They're a little rougher in A lot of pitchers don't like it because think is pretty real. In the American Philadelphia but the same kind of in- they have pride in their ability to swing League, the umpire positions himself tensity is right here. It's great to have the bat. I think it takes away some of the directly behind the catcher and there's people who are so knowledgeable and so good managerial skills a good manager more of a temptation to call strikes high vocal, compared to fans in other towns, can use to win ballgames. I don't know if in the strike zone. That hurt me because I say San Diego or Oakland where you just it improves the offensive nature of the could never pitch up. In the National don't get the same oomph from the crowd game, but I think it makes it easier for the League, the umpire positions as you do in Boston. himself in managers. the corner and, always having pretty good control, that helped me. ON FENWAY PARK ON TODAY'S RED SOX

I had no choice but to pitch in Fen- ON BILL LEE I think the team's chances are excellent way, but I always contended that The this year. When you look at everything in Wall helped you as much as it hurt you. I The real wild ballplayers kind of get perspective, and I can do that now that would have loved to have seen some weeded out. They force their own hand I'm out of the game, I can really second- studies done as to how many line drives generally. Front offices of these guess them. You want a team that has were saved from being home runs by that organizations don't know how to handle won over ninety games in the past four Wall, and just turned into singles and wild ballplayers. Managers generally years, which is what they've done. doubles. Fenway Park also has a grass in- don't know how to handle them, and they They're still a damn good ball team. I field that is wonderfully kept. This was a shift from team to team. I guess you think they've been unfortunate that other big advantage for me because I was a could say managers like to have teams have come along that were just one sinker-ball pitcher and always tried to somebody that fits a mold so they can or two games better. So, to look at it from keep the ball down, hoping the batters follow directions. Free spirits, free that stand-point, you don't want to would hit into the dirt. Fenway is a much thinkers - your Bill Lees - are difficult to change the complexion of the team too more desirable place to pitch than some handle because they're difficult to un- much. To go out and find better pitching modern, Astro-turf fields where the ball derstand. But Bill Lee is an excellent pit- is not as easy as it sounds without moves much faster on the ground. cher and an excellent baseball player, he's destroying the continuity of the complex ON THE NATIONAL dedicated, hard-working and competitive. you already have. So the Red Sox have LEAGUE To me, it would behoove a manager to the foundation. They just have to hope understand a guy like this and get more some of their pitching develops. I think The National League players had a out of him. Bill was only unusual in that they have an excellent chance of winning tendency not to be so "buddy-buddy". he was guy with an awful lot of interests, it all next year. I don't think Baltimore They had a much more aggressive style of and he wasn't going to let baseball in- can maintain the pace they did last year.

play. I think they slid into second base a terfere with those interests. He was a New York's a little stronger, but if the lot harder, I think some of the hitters pleasure to have on the team, a real joy. younger pitchers come through, the Red

were more aggressive, I think there was a He broke up some of the monotony. Sox can win it.

Long Nights & Winter Rough Edges

Isolated moments frozen in time When will the mourning end, my love. drift by my window like flocks of wild geese Words shooting diffusing the surface, in lonely november Fires burning, charring the rough edges of the heart. Leaning towards illusive high towers, Memories etched across my mind Stumbling, crumbling visions biting the core, like frozen patterns left by skaters Charging gold plated crosses testing sanity, on some forgotten pond Replenished fluids births an unyielding armor.

John G. Hall Demise R. Maffett

Wavelength 45 request when they found that Imani and I would like to convey to all of you my

Ujima received about forty-six hundred congratulations on an excellent first

dollars during the year. The sum they issue. I am well aware of the hard work, said was entirely too much for two RSO's energy and persistence that went into the to receive and it would not be fair to creation of this magazine. I really think other RSO's if the two organizations were you have done a fine job and I am con- granted the request. In defense of that fident that there will be many out- argument, one S.A.C. member stated that standing issues to follow. You, the S.A.C. he hoped everyone would participate and and all those who helped put out the share cultural diversities. The question magazine have good reason to be proud asked by Imani and Ujima was why did of the result. the secretary and chairperson of the cultural events subcommittee compare Heinz Bondy Sexual Harassment the funds received by Imani and Ujima Assistant Vice Chancellor

with other RSO's, when there is no comparison. Why not compare Ujima to the The article on Sexual Harassment Ski Club or Irish Historical Society. Some which appeared in your December 5, I just looked through Wavelength of the very people who signed the 1979 issue shed an unjustified suspicion and am very impressed. Knowing a little Covenant of Racial Justice, Equality and on the faculty of the Biology Depart- about the difficulties of getting out any Harmony rejected the Ujima Proposal. A ment. Despite your disclaimer at the end publication, I appreciate your ac- realistic comparison would be the total of the article that "in some cases depart- complishment. You and the editors and number of RSOs who received more ments and dates have been changed to writers are all to be money than Imani and Ujima put protect the parties involved", the setting congratulated: somehow, you have together. Furthermore, any event funded and the lecture topic memtioned in the produced on campus a serious, literate, by the S.A.C. is open to the UMass com- episode "Being Put in Your Place" point interesting magazine. munity regardless of one's background, very strongly to a biology course. race, color, creed or religion. Many I would suggest in the strongest James H. Broderick people thought that signing the covenant possible terms that your commendable in- Deputy Chancellor would ease racial tension and com- tent of protecting the parties involved municate on higher levels than taking should have been thought through more one's color into consideration. Harmony carefully to avoid the incrimination of Mass College of Art and spirit among people of color can only paries which by your own admission are be achieved inside one's heart. The refec- not involved. tion of the Ujima proposal was not in the This is to compliment Rick Bowers for spirit of the Covenant, but clearly in "Mass College of Art- Edna Seaman his fine article some people's opinion, a decision with What's the Next Move?" which appeared Chair, Biology Department racial overtones. in your December 5, 1979 issue. Mr. Bowers came to the assignment without Robert J.Moore any preconceived ideas regarding the College of Art and his objectivity shows S.A.C. Hassle through.

I would like to correct one error,

At a December Student Activities however, I am quoted as saying "essential We done good letters Committee meeting, a proposal submitted to getting a BA is the requirement to take by the African-American Student 12 credits in art history." That passage Organization (Bachelor of Fine Arts). UJima, was rejected by I just wanted to express my ap- should read BFA It is S.A.C. members in a roll call vote 7 to 6. preciation for the high quality of the first THIS IS NOT HAIR SPLITTING. essentia! point since the BFA is The proposal was a request for funds to issue ofWavelength. It is an interesting in fact an opposed to the celebrate Kwanza. Kwanza is a black and well written news magazine and I am the professional degree as in art. The dif- religious holiday celebrated December pleased by its quality. Good luck to you liberal arts oriented BA 26th through January 1st. The secretary and the rest of the staff. ference in degree nomenclature is sym- and the chairperson the cultural events bolic of the very real difference in subcommittee stated that they reviewed Robert A. Corrigan curriculum and emphasis in the two for- the S.A.C account and rejected the Chancellor ms of education.

Wavelength 46 While I feel that Mr. Bower's article Planning Commmittee here at MCA. As Cross's statement of the Boston was essentially accurate in presenting a result of this position, I have become Redevelopment Authority. According to

many of the issues which concern the very aware of the complex physical plant that agencies "Boston Plan" it is com-

College of Art, I found no such sensitivity requirements of the institution. A mitted to refurbishing Bayside Mass as a present in the remarks by student trustee professional school of art and design shopping area." Reconstruction of the Nancy Cross. requires very special spaces with very Bayside Mall will beging in 1980, Ms. Cross makes a number of asser- special mechanical, ventilation, and resulting in approximately 100,000

tions which I challenge. First, she ignores power needs. A studio can be an in- square feet of modernized retail ." the fact that Columbia Point lies well out- dustrial scale foundry or printing plant, a space,. . side the center of the professional ac- series of drafting tables or a glass blowing Finally, I know of no one at MCA who

tivities upon which MCA depends. furnace. I frankly would like to know on has suggested that the UMass art student

Where are the art supply stores, printing what information is the Universities' is less dedicated than a Mass Art student. firms, advertising agencies, galleries, proposal based? Ms. Cross mentions a I would strongly suggest, however, that photostat houses, architectural firms, feasibility report (a report, by the way, the objectives of their education is dif- graphic design studios and typographers? that no one at Mass College of Art has ferent - and appropriately so. To quote

Second, Ms. Cross makes no mention ever seen), yet, I know of no contact bet- Ms. Cross once more "although UMass of dormitories. Yet, MCA is not a com- ween the University and MCA in which Boston's Art Department is very good, it muter school - it draws students from all the information necessary to make such a presently does not have adequate studio over the state and the New England proposal was obtained. space."

region. Are we to assume that the com- As to Ms. Cross's concern for the tax- It seems to me that Ms. Cross would munitities of Savin Hill and South Boston payers, I would like to point out that the better serve the University in her role as are going to open their doors and provide Commonwealth has already spent a sub- student trustee by pressing for adequate us with student affordable housing? stantial sum of money to develop a facilities and support for UMB's art Third, Ms. Cross suggests Bay Side Master Plan for MCA at Charlestown. In department rather than deciding for the Mall as an appropriate location for the addition, the legislature has appropriated College of Art its future. College of Art at a cost of approximately approximately 8 million dollars for first William J. Hannon 4.5 million dollars. For the last five years, phase construction. Assistant to the President I have been Chairperson of the Campus Fourth, there is no mention in Ms. for External Affairs

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